SAUDI v. S/T MARINE ATLANTIC

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

159 F.Supp.2d 492 (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, Afton Jane Izen, Attorney at Law, Bellaire, TX, for Captain Sheriff Saudi.

Thomas R. Nork, Bell Ryniker et al., for Marine Atlantic Ltd., John Doe Company, Acomarit Services S A, Osprey Acomarit Ship.

Hollis Horton, Organ, Bell & Tucker, Beaumont, TX, for Appleton Machine Co., Appleton Machine Co. Inc., and Appleton Marine Inc.

F. Michael Stenglein, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Houston, TX, for United States Trust Company of New York.

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 Incorporated.

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

David Patrick Ayers, Fulbright & Jaworski, Innes A. Mackillop, White Mackillop et al., Houston, TX, for Marine Transport Lines, Inc. and Marine Transport Corp.


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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