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ST. BERNARD PARISH v. LAFARGE NORTH AMERICA, INC.

No. 18-30029.

914 F.3d 969 (2019)

ST. BERNARD PARISH, Through the St. Bernard Parish Government, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. LAFARGE NORTH AMERICA, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellee, v. Richard T. Seymour; Law Office of Richard T. Seymour, P.L.L.C., Movants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED February 1, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian Arthur Gilbert, Esq. , Conroy Law Firm, P.L.C., Metairie, LA, Craig B. Sanders , David Michael Barshay , Sanders Law, P.L.L.C., Garden City, NY, for Plaintiff Appellee.

Jennifer Greenblatt , Attorney, Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Breenan & Baum, L.L.P., Chicago, IL, Kyle D. Schonekas , Eleanor T. Schilling, Esq. , Attorney, Schonekas, Evans, McGoey & McEachin, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, for Defendant-Appellee.

Richard Talbot Seymour , Law Offices of Richard T. Seymour, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC, for Movants-Appellants.

Before STEWART, Chief Judge, and DENNIS and WILLETT, Circuit Judges.

When Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, a barge moored by Lafarge wound up at large. According to New Orleans residents then represented by Richard T. Seymour, the breakaway barge hurtled through a floodwall, unleashing catastrophic flooding in the Lower 9th Ward before finally coming to rest atop several homes and...

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