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GABARICK v. LAURIN MARITIME (AMERICA), INC.

Civil Action Nos. 08-4007, 08-4156, 08-4023, 08-4046, 08-4261, 08-4600.

900 F.Supp.2d 669 (2012)

Stephen Marshall GABARICK and Bernard Attridge On Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated v. LAURIN MARITIME (AMERICA), INC.; Whitefin Shipping Co., Ltd.; D.R.D. Towing Company, LLC; American Commercial Lines, Inc.; and The New Orleans-Baton Rouge Steamship Pilots Association.

United States District Court, E.D. Louisiana.

September 28, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Camilo Kossy Salas, III , Salas & Co., LC, Stevan C. Dittman , Gainsburgh, Benjamin, David, Meunier & Warshauer, New Orleans, LA, Daniel E. Becnel, Jr. , Darryl James Becnel , Kevin Patrick Klibert , Matthew B. Moreland , Becnel Law Firm, LLC, Reserve, LA, for Stephen Marshall Gabarick and Bernard Attridge On Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated.

Glenn A. Goodier , Richard D. Bertram , Jones, Walker, New Orleans, LA, John A. Nicoletti , Terry L. Stoltz , Nicoletti, Hornig & Sweeney, New York, NY, for American Commerical Lines, Inc.

Randy Waits , John Emmett , Waits, Emmett, and Popp, New Orleans, LA, for DRD Towing Co., Inc.

Hugh Ramsay Straub , David B. Lawton , Michael M. Butterworth , Raymond T. Waid , Phelps Dunbar LLP, New Orleans, LA, for Laurin Maritime (Americas) Inc., Laurin Maritime AB, Whitefin Shipping Co., Ltd., and Anglo-Atlantic Steamship Limited.

Hilary G. Gaudin , Priscilla M. Schwartz , Gaudin & Gaudin, for John Bavaret.

OPINION

IVAN L.R. LEMELLE, District Judge.

This litigation involves complicated fact pattens and interwoven legal issues. It begins with a series of vessel chartering agreements by American Commercial Lines, Inc. ("ACL") and D.R.D. Towing Company, LLC ("DRD") — an arrangement described by ACL as a "two step, two contract process". Record Document Number 1381, p. 55. The pertinent arrangement involves charter for the M/V MEL OLIVER ("MEL OLIVER...

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