PAVONE v. MISSISSIPPI RIVERBOAT AMUSEMENT CORP.

Nos. 94-30251, 94-60706.

52 F.3d 560 (1995)

Christopher PAVONE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MISSISSIPPI RIVERBOAT AMUSEMENT CORPORATION, et al., Defendants-Appellees. Kathleen L. KETZEL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MISSISSIPPI RIVERBOAT AMUSEMENT, LTD., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 19, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard H. Barker, IV, Barker & Boyer, New Orleans, LA, for appellant in No. 94-30251.

Nicole Duarte Martin, Gerald J. Talbot, Lemle & Kelleher, New Orleans, LA, for appellees in No. 94-30251.

David A. Hilleren, David Paul Bains, Rebecca Y. Cooper, New Orleans, LA, for appellant in No. 94-60706.

James H. Heidelberg, Michael J. McElhaney, Jr., Colingo, Williams, Heidelberg, Steinberger & McElhaney, Pascagoula, MS, for appellee in No. 94-60706.

Before WISDOM, WIENER and PARKER, Circuit Judges.


WIENER, Circuit Judge:

The appeals we hear in consolidation today are brought by two plaintiffs-appellants who claim that they were injured while working on a Jones Act vessel, but whose claims were dismissed on summary judgments rendered by different district courts. Both claims arose in the context of the dockside casino facet of the burgeoning gaming industries in two of the states of this circuit. In our plenary review of the district courts' summary judgments...

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