DENOUX v. VESSEL MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC.

No. 2007-C-2143.

983 So.2d 84 (2008)

Andre J. DENOUX, Kurt Labeaud, Theron J. Washington, David Dickerson, Robert P. Williams, Jr., Richard W. Blackman, Christopher R. Booker, Horace Blanks, III, Derrick A. Matthews, Robert Taylor, Christopher G. Haines and Lorenzo N. Morgan v. VESSEL MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC., Belle of Orleans, LLC, Bally's Louisiana, Inc., d/b/a Bally's Casino Lakeshore Resort, Inc. and Patrick M. Browning.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

May 21, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Koerner Law Firm, Louis Roy Koerner, Jr., R. Brent Cueria, New Orleans, for applicant.

Phelps Dunbar, Barbara L. Arras, New Orleans, James Francis d'Entremont, Baton Rouge; Leake & Anderson, McNeil James Kemmerly, Margaret Frohn Swetman, George Davidson Fagan, New Orleans; Michael Rudolf Delesdernier, Metairie, for respondent.


JOHNSON, Justice.

We granted this writ application to consider whether the lower courts erred in sustaining the exception of prescription filed by defendant, Glidden Company d/b/a ICI Paints ("Glidden"). The court of appeal correctly found that Plaintiffs' claims against Glidden are prescribed, but we vacate the findings of the court of appeal in regard to whether Plaintiffs were Jones Act seaman, whether the Belle of Orleans was a vessel in navigation, and whether...

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