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LEWIS v. GLENDEL DRILLING CO.

No. 88-4934.

898 F.2d 1083 (1990)

Beverly Locks LEWIS, Individually and as the Tutrix of Her Minor Children, Nona Aisha Lewis, Erisa Kironda Lewis, Jamal William Lewis, Benita Leshawn Lewis and Jeriel Nicole Lewis, Plaintiff, v. GLENDEL DRILLING COMPANY and Pioneer Production Corporation, Defendants. AVANTI SERVICES, INC., Defendant, Third Party Defendant, Cross-Defendant, Appellant, v. GLENDEL DRILLING COMPANY and Highlands Insurance Company, Defendants, Cross-Plaintiffs, Appellees, Mesa (as Successors to Pioneer Production), Third Party Plaintiff, Cross-Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 26, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Redwine, Sessions, Fishman, Boisfontaine, Nathan, Winn, Butler & Barkley, New Orleans, La., for Avanti Services, Inc.

Douglas W. Truxillo, Onebane, Donohoe, Bernard, Torian, Diaz, McNamara & Abell, Lafayette, La., for Glendel Drilling Co.

Patrick W. Gray, Lafayette, La., for Mesa Operating Ltd. Partners.

Before GEE and JONES, Circuit Judges, and HUNTER, District Judge.

EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:

This case confronts us again with the vexing question whether liabilities arising from offshore mineral exploration are to be determined under federal admiralty or state law. The result here is foreordained by precedent, but because of an apparently contradictory line of cases in our circuit and the uncertain policy underpinning our result, the appellant would justly ask "why?". Perhaps this court should seek to answer Avanti's question...

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