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MOTTS v. M/V GREEN WAVE

No. 99-40681.

210 F.3d 565 (2000)

Neville MOTTS; et al., Plaintiffs, Danna Motts, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Neville Motts, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. M/V GREEN WAVE, Its Engine, Tackle, In Rem; et al., Defendants, Central Gulf Lines, Inc.; LMS Shipmanagement, Inc., also known as Lash Marine Services, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 9, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Patrick Doyle, Lance Charles Arney, Cook & Butler, Reginald Edmund McKamie, Sr. (argued), Law Offices of Reginald E. McKamie, Sr., Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Robert L. Klawetter (argued), Lewis Eugene Henderson, Eastham, Watson, Dale & Forney, Houston, TX, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before DAVIS, CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL, Circuit Judge:

An unfortunate sea accident and the tragic events that followed it require us to consider the relationship between general federal admiralty jurisdiction and the Death on the High Seas Act ("DOHSA"). We hold that DOHSA applies where the decedent is injured on the high seas, even if a party's negligence is entirely land-based and begins subsequent to that injury.

I.

The decedent, Neville Motts, joined the M/V GREEN...

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