IN RE TRANSPORTER MARINE, INC.

No. 99-30703.

217 F.3d 335 (2000)

In Re: In the Matter of the Complaint of TRANSPORTER MARINE, INC., as Owner of M/V TRANSPORTER, and Gulf Tran Inc., as Operator of M/V TRANSPORTER, for Exoneration from or Limitation of Liability. Transporter Marine, Inc., as owner of M/V TRANSPORTER; Gulf Tran Inc., As Operator of M/V TRANSPORTER, Petitioners-Appellants, v. Newfield Exploration Company; et al., Claimants, Newfield Exploration Company; St. Paul Surplus Lines Insurance Company, Claimants-Appellees, and United States of America, on behalf of the United States Coast Guard, Appellee. Newfield Exploration Company; St. Paul Surplus Lines Insurance Company, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Eroica Hall, also known as Rico Hall, Defendant, v. Transporter Marine, Inc.; Gulf Tran Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 13, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee Morgan Peacocke (argued), Fred E. Salley, Salley & Associates, Metairie, LA, for Petitioners-Appellants.

T. Justin Simpson, Larzelere & Picou, Metairie, LA, for Claimants-Appellees.

David Vernon Hutchinson (argued), U.S. Dept. of Justice, Torts Branch, Civ. Div., Washington, DC, for Appellee.

Before WIENER, BENAVIDES and PARKER, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

This appeal involves narrow legal issues of first impression arising from a collateral skirmish in the same district court that is conducting a marine limitation of liability proceeding. That proceeding was provoked by Petitioners, the owners and operators of the M/V TRANSPORTER, after Claimant-Appellee Eroica R. Hall, a seaman on the M/V TRANSPORTER, lost both legs in a shipboard accident.1 Some time after the incident, the...

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