MATTER OF TALBOTT BIG FOOT, INC.

No. 90-3323.

924 F.2d 85 (1991)

In the Matter of TALBOTT BIG FOOT, INC. and Patterson Gulf Coast Drilling Co., as Owner/Manager of the Big Foot Two, Petitioning for Exoneration From or Limitation of Liability. TALBOTT BIG FOOT, INC., Patterson Gulf Coast Drilling Co., Inc. and Patterson Gulf Coast Drilling Assoc., Ltd., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Richard BOUDREAUX, Kimrenee Boudreaux, Johnny A. Nichols, Joel P. Wilson, Christine Wilson, Michelle Bertrand Barbier, Individually and on Behalf of her Minor Child, Percy Barbier, III and Karen Dubois Barbier, Individually and as Natural Tutrix of the Minor Child, Kiisha Celeste Barbier, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 15, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence N. Curtis, Lafayette, La., for Richard Boudreaux and Kimrenne Boudreaux.

Estelle E. Mahoney, Houma, La., for Nichols.

T. Peter Breslin, Chehardy, Sherman, Ellis & Breslin, Metairie, La., for Wilson and M.B. Barbier.

Jed G. Gremillion, Robert K. Guillory & Associates, Lafayette, La., for Karen Dubois Barbier.

Walter J. Leger, Jr., Franklin G. Shaw, Leger & Mestayer, New Orleans, La., for Big Foot.

Docia L. Dalby, Winston Rice, New Orleans, La., for Gard amicus curiae.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, GARZA and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.


GARZA, Circuit Judge:

This is an interlocutory appeal pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a)(3) from a trial determining limitation of liability. The facts in this appeal are not presently in controversy, the events occurring after the trial, however, are. Finding no case or controversy exists, this appeal is DISMISSED without prejudice to any pending litigation between the parties.

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