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LLOYD'S LEASING LTD. v. BATES

No. 89-2310.

902 F.2d 368 (1990)

In the Complaint and Petition of LLOYD'S LEASING LIMITED, As Owner and Cammell Laird Shipbuilders, Ltd., et al., Petitioners-Appellees, v. James BATES, Martin Behrend, et al., and Port Arthur Vietnamese Community, et al., etc., Claimants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 4, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Otto D. Hewitt, J.D. Bashline, Ervin A. Apffel, Jr., Michael L. Neely, Galveston, Tex., and Susan Theisen, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for petitioners.

Wendell C. Radford, Beaumont, Tex., for claimant, Johnson Marine, Inc.

Lester J. Lautenschlaeger, Jr., New Orleans, La., for interested party, Lake Charles Pilots, Inc., et al.

John M. Elsley and James Patrick Cooney, Royston, Rayzor, Vickery & Williams, Houston, Tex., for appellees.

Henry S. Morgan, Theodore Dimitry, Knox D. Nunnally, Vinson & Elkins, Constance M. Walker, Houston, Tex., for Conoco, Inc.

R. Scott Blaze, Mee Lon Lam, Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Washington, D.C., for the U.S.

Before HIGGINBOTHAM, SMITH and DUHE, Circuit Judges.

DUHÉ, Circuit Judge.

FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS BELOW

The M/T Alvenus ran aground near Cameron, Louisiana on July 30, 1984.1 The grounding caused an oil spill of 2-3 million tons of crude which eventually washed ashore in the Galveston, Texas area.

On August 7, 1984 the appellees filed a complaint for limitation of liability. The court issued a monition and restrained the prosecution of other claims. Notice that all claims...

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