SAUDI v. S/T MARINE ATLANTIC

No. CIV. A. H-99-2367.

159 F.Supp.2d 488 (2000)

Captain Sheriff SAUDI, Plaintiff v. S/T MARINE ATLANTIC, Her Equipment and Appurtenances, In Rem (a/k/a M/V Marine Atlantic, Her Equipment and Appurtenances, In Rem, a/k/a M/T Marine Atlantic, Her Equipment and Appurtenances, In Rem), Marine Atlantic, Ltd., John Doe Company, Owner of the Vessel Marine Atlantic, Acomarit Services Maritimes, S.A., Osprey Acomarit Ship Management, Inc., Valmet-Appleton, Inc., Appleton Machine Co. (Appleton Marine Division), Appleton Machine Co., Inc., Appleton Marine, Inc., John Doe Company, Designer of the Crane, Koch Petroleum Group, L.P., Jurong Shipyard, Ltd. and United States Trust Company of New York, Defendants

United States District Court, S.D. Texas, Houston Division.

December 15, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe Alfred Izen, Jr., Izen & Associates, Bellaire, TX, Afton Jane Izen, Bellaire, TX, for plaintiff.

Thomas R. Nork, Bell, Ryniker et al., Houston, TX, for S/T MARINE ATLANTIC, Acromarit Services Martimes, SA, Osprey Acomarit Ship Management, Inc., defendants.

Hollis Horton, Orgain, Bell & Tucker, Beaumont, TX, for Appleton machine, Co., Appleton Machine Co., Inc., Appleton Marine, Inc., defendants.

F. Michael Stenflein, Weil Gotshal & Manges, Houston, TX, for U.S. Trust Company of New York, defendant.

Michael Evan Jaffe, Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, Washington, DC, Michael D. Hudgins, Hudgins, Hudgins and Warrick, Houston, TX, David Kelleher, Stephen M. Hall, Arent Fox et al., Washington, DC, for Valmet-Appleton, Inc., defendant.

Steven Michael Duble, Hays McConn Rice and Pickering, Houston, TX, for Koch Petroleum Group, Koch Shipping, Inc., Koch Supply and Trading Co., defendants.

David Patrick Ayers, Fulbright & Jaworski, Houston, TX, Innes A. MacKillop, White MacKillop et al., Houston, TX, Marine Transport Corp., defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

HARMON, District Judge.

Pending before the Court in the above referenced admiralty and maritime personal injury action, arising from the May 17, 1999 fall of Plaintiff Captain Sheriff Saudi ("Plaintiff" or "Saudi") from a lifting basket as he was transferred from the tanker Marine Atlantic to the M/V American Discovery because of the collapse of an allegedly defective portside crane on the tanker Marine Atlantic, is inter alia...

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