IN RE OCEANOGRAFIA, S.A. DE C.V.

No. 14-0963.

494 S.W.3d 728 (2016)

IN RE OCEANOGRAFIA, S.A. DE C.V., Otto Candies LLC, Candies Mexican Investments, and OSA International, Relators.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Opinion delivered: July 1, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David G. Oliveira , Roerig Oliveira & Fisher LLP, McAllen, Jason A. Itkin , Kurt Brynilde Arnold , Arnold & Itkin LLP, Russell S. Post , Beck Redden LLP, William Robert Peterson , Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Houston, for Real Party in Interest Marisela Olan Jimenez.

Alfred J. Rufty III , Harris & Rufty, LLC, New Orleans, LA, Eduardo R. Rodriguez , Atlas Hall Rodriguez, LLP, Brownsville, for Relators Candies Mexican Investments, Oceanografia, S.A. de C.V., OSA International, Otto Candies LLC.


The Seba'an, a merchant vessel registered in Mexico and sailing under the Mexican flag with a Mexican crew, was ferrying workers, all citizens of Mexico, from the Mexican port of Ciudad del Carmen to an offshore drilling site when it caught fire and sank off the coast of Mexico. One worker drowned. The others were rescued. All the survivors...

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