NATIONAL R.R. PASSENGER v. ROUNTREE TRANSPORT

Nos. 00-13811, 00-13986.

422 F.3d 1275 (2005)

NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION (AMTRAK), CSX Transportation, Inc., Plaintiffs-Cross-Defendants-Counter-Defendants-Cross-Appellants-Cross-Appellees, American Home Assurance Company, f.u.b.o. Stewart and Stevenson Services, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee, v. ROUNTREE TRANSPORT AND RIGGING, INC., Defendant-Cross-Defendant-Appellee, Kissimmee Utility Authority, Defendant-Cross-Claimant-Cross-Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Counter-Defendant-Third-Party-Plaintiff-Third-Party-Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, WOKO Transportation, Black and Veatch, et al., Defendants-Cross-Claimants-Cross-Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Counter-Defendants-Third-Party-Plaintiffs-Third-Party-Defendants-Appellees, Florida Municipal Power Agency, Defendant-Cross-Claimant-Cross-Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Counter-Defendant-Third-Party-Plaintiff-Third-Party-Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, General Electric Company, Inc., Consolidated Defendant-Third-Party Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, Stewart and Stevenson Services, Inc., Movant-Cross-Appellant. American Home Assurance Company, f.u.b.o. Stewart and Stevenson Services, Inc., Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee, v. National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), CSX Transportation, Inc., et al., Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, Rountree Transport and Rigging, Inc., Defendant-Cross-Defendant-Appellee, Kissimmee Utility Authority, Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, Florida Municipal Power Agency, Movant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, General Electric Co., Movant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, Stewart and Stevenson Services, Inc., Movant-Cross-Appellant. National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), CSX Transportation, Inc., Plaintiffs-Cross-Defendants-Counter-Defendants, v. Rountree Transport and Rigging, Inc., Defendant-Cross-Defendant-Appellee, Kissimmee Utility Authority, Defendant-Cross-Claimant-Cross-Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Counter-Defendant-Third-Party-Plaintiff-Third-Party-Defendant, WOKO Transportation, Defendant-Cross-Claimant-Cross-Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Counter-Defendant-Third-Party-Plaintiff-Third-Party-Defendant, Black and Veatch, et al., Defendants-Cross-Claimants-Cross-Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Counter-Defendants-Third-Party-Plaintiffs-Third-Party-Defendants-Appellants, Florida Municipal Power Agency, Defendant-Cross-Claimant-Cross-Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Counter-Defendant-Third-Party-Plaintiff-Third-Party-Defendant, General Electric Co., Third-Party-Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 1, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Ramer Karcher, Underwood, Karcher & Karcher, P.A., Coral Gables, FL, William L. Eagan, Arnold, Matheny & Eagan, P.A., Orlando, FL, for American Home Assur. Co.

Sutton G. Hilyard, Jr., Bobby G. Palmer, Jr., Hilyard, Bogan, Palmer, P.A., Michael J. Roper, Ernest H. Kohlmyer, III, Bell, Leeper & Roper, P.A., Alton G. Pitts, Alton G. Pitts, P.A., Thomas M. Burke, Holland & Knight, LLP, John W. Bussey, III, Bussey, White, McDonough and Freeman, P.A., Richards H. Ford, Michael R. D'Lugo, Wicker, Smith, Tutan, O'Hara, McCoy, Graham & Ford, P.A., J. Charles Ingram, Hannah, Estes & Ingram, P.A., Orlando, FL, Daniel John Fleming, Melkus, Fleming & Gutierrez, Tampa, FL, L. Lee Williams, Jr., Williams & Gautier, PA, Tallahassee, FL, James M. Warden, Shawnee Mission, KS, for Rountree Transport and Rigging, Inc., Kissimmee Utility Authority, Black and Veatch, Florida Municipal Power Agency, CSX Transp., Inc. National R.R. Passenger Corp. and General Elec. Co.

Thomas E. Warner, Carlton Fields, West Palm Beach, FL, for Atty. Gen. of Florida, Amicus Curiae.

Before TJOFLAT and BIRCH, Circuit Judges, and GOLDBERG, Judge.


BIRCH, Circuit Judge:

This case returns to us for disposition from the Supreme Court of Florida, to which we certified four questions of Florida state law. See National R.R. Passenger Corp. v. Rountree Transp. & Rigging, Inc., 286 F.3d 1233, 1258, 1269 (11th Cir.2002). Based on the Florida Supreme Court's responses to the certified questions, see American Home Assurance Co...

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