IN RE LARRY DOIRON, INC.

No. 16-30217.

879 F.3d 568 (2018)

IN RE: In the Matter of the Complaint of LARRY DOIRON, INCORPORATED as Owner and Operator of the Barge Pogo and M/V Billy Joe for Exoneration from or Limitation of Liability. Larry Doiron, Incorporated, Plaintiff-Appellee. Robert Jackson, Intervenor Plaintiff-Appellee v. Specialty Rental Tools & Supply, L.L.P.; Oil States Energy Services, L.L.C.; Zurich American Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED January 8, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan David Ezkovich , Attorney, New Orleans, LA, Clarence William Emory , Georges M. Legrand , Mouledoux, Bland, Legrand & Brackett, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, Kristin M. Lausten , Ezkovich & Company, LLC, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Mark Lynn Clark , Robert Jeffrey Bridger, Esq. , Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-Appellants.

Harold Kemler Watson , Alan R. Davis , Ivan Mauricio Rodriguez , Chaffe McCall, L.L.P., Houston, TX, as Amicus Curiae for Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and Liberty International Underwriters.

Richard K. Leefe , Attorney, Leefe, Gibbs, Sullivan, Dupre' & Aldous, L.L.C., Metairie, LA, as Amicus Curiae for Crescent Energy Services, L.L.C.

Before STEWART, Chief Judge, and JOLLY, DAVIS, JONES, SMITH, DENNIS, CLEMENT, PRADO, OWEN, ELROD, SOUTHWICK, HAYNES, GRAVES, HIGGINSON and COSTA, Circuit Judges.


We took this case en banc to consider modifying the criteria set forth in Davis & Sons, Inc. v. Gulf Oil Corp. for determining whether a contract for performance of specialty services to facilitate the drilling or production of oil or gas on navigable waters is maritime.1 After...

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