O'NEILL v. AGWI LINES

No. 95-40102. Summary Calendar.

74 F.3d 93 (1996)

Earle B. O'NEILL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AGWI LINES, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 6, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald A. Krispin, Leonard C. Jaques, Jaques Admiralty Law Firm, Detroit, MI, for plaintiff-appellant.

Stephen Mark Strawn, Galveston, TX, for American Oil Co., Cleveland Tankers Inc., Coastwise Trading Co., Farrell Lines Inc., Gulf Oil Co., Gulf Trading & Transport, Lykes Brothers Steamship Co., Marine Transport Lines Inc., Mystic Steamship Corp. and National Bulk Carriers.

Innes A. Mackillop, Ronald L. White, Walter Joseph Gallant, Brown, Sims, Wise & White, Houston, TX, for Babcock & Wilcox Co.

James M. Tompkins, Mark Reese Pharr, III, Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins & Burr, Houston, TX, for Combustion Engineering Inc.

Thomas C. Fitzhugh, III, Peter Thompson, John C. Elliott, Fitzhugh & Thompson, Houston, TX, for Foster Wheeler Co.

Patricia Kay Andrews, Richard T. McCarroll, Brown McCarroll & Oaks Hartline, Austin, TX, Arthur R. Almquist, Mehaffy and Weber, Houston, TX, for General Elec. Co.

Michael Lance Burnett, Vinson & Elkins, Houston, TX, for Gulf Trading & Transport and Hess Tankship Co.

Louis E. McCarter, Houston, TX, for Hess Tankship Co.

John Michael Jordan, Beirne, Maynard and Parsons, Houston, TX, for IMO Industries, Inc.

Jad J. Stepp, Jerry C. Von Sternberg, Eastham, Watson, Dale & Forney, Houston, TX, for Moore McCormack Bulk Transport, Inc. and Mormac Marine Transport, Inc.

James T. Brown, Houston, TX, for Texaco Marine Services, Inc., Texaco Refining & Marketing Co. and Texaco, Inc.

Wendy Frank Lumish, R. Benjamine Reid, Popham, Haik, Schnobrich and Kaufman, Miami, FL, for Westinghouse Elec. Corp.

Before GARWOOD, WIENER and PARKER, Circuit Judges.


ROBERT M. PARKER, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff appeals from the district court's order sanctioning him for his failure to comply with the district court's order of conference. The district court dismissed plaintiff's Jones Act claim without prejudice and ordered plaintiff's attorney to pay the defendants' attorneys' fees. We affirm.

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Earle B. O'Neill ("O'Neill") — through his Michigan attorneys, the Jaques Admiralty Law Firm,...

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