BARTEL v. ALCOA STEAMSHIP COMPANY INC (2020)

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

William E. BARTEL, as Personal Reprsentative of the Estate of Paul E. Owen v. ALCOA STEAMSHIP COMPANY, INC.; Mississippi Shipping Company; Crowley Marine Services, Inc., as Successor by Merger to Delta Steamship Lines, Inc., f/k/a Mississippi Shipping Co., Inc.; Pan Atlantic Steamship Co. and Waterman Steamship Corporation

No.2020-CC-00681

Decided: September 29, 2020

Writ application denied.

In light of the three-year federal statute of limitations as provided in 45 U.S.C. § 56 and 46 U.S.C. § 30106, I would grant and docket this matter to determine whether plaintiff's state court case, filed almost twenty-five years after he filed his Jones Act suit in federal court in Ohio, is prescribed.

Crichton, J., would grant and docket and assigns reasons. Crain, J., recused.

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