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ODECO OIL AND GAS CO., DRILLING DIV. v. BONNETTE

No. 95-30041.

74 F.3d 671 (1996)

ODECO OIL AND GAS COMPANY, DRILLING DIVISION and Odeco Drilling Services, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. David J. BONNETTE, et al., Defendants-Appellees, Shell Oil Company and Shell Offshore Inc., Movants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 14, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas W. Thorne, Jr., Edwin John Heiser, James H. Daigle, Lemle & Kelleher, New Orleans, LA for plaintiffs-appellants.

Thomas Massa Discon, Metairie, LA, for Bonnette, Porras and Robbins, defendants-appellees.

John Browning Baldwin, Baldwin & Baldwin, Marshall, TX, for Henry Brumfield, defendant-appellee.

William L. Denton, Biloxi, MS, for Joel Thompson, defendant-appellee.

Arthur A. Crais, Jr., New Orleans, LA, for Shell Oil Co., Shell Offshore Inc., Liverpool & London P & I Club.

Before WIENER, EMILIO M. GARZA and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.

EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:

Odeco Oil & Gas Company and Odeco Drilling Services, Inc. (collectively "Odeco") appeal the district court's order partially lifting its stay of a tort action in Texas state court in which Odeco is a defendant. We vacate and remand.

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While conducting safety drills on a fixed platform in the Gulf of Mexico, five Odeco employees were injured when an escape capsule free-fell ninety feet, and crashed into the ocean...

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