DOUGLASS v. KAISHA (2021)

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Stephen DOUGLASS, Individually and as personal representative of the Estate of Shingo Alexander Douglass; Dora Hernandez, Individually and as personal representative of the Estate of Noe Hernandez; Lan Huynh, Individually and as personal representative of the Estate of Ngoc Truong Huynh; Darrold Martin, Individually and as personal representative of the Estate of Xavier Alec Martin; Erin Rehm, Individually and as personal representative of the Estate of Gary Leo Rehm, Jr.; Lloyd Wayne Rigsby, Jr., Individually and as personal representative of the Estate of Dakota Kyle Rigsby; Carmen Sibayan, Individually and as personal representative of the Estate of Carlos Victor Ganzon Sibayan, Plaintiffs—Appellants, v. Nippon Yusen Kabushiki KAISHA, Defendant—Appellee,

Jhon Alcide; Richard Allen-Easmon; Dustin Angle; Jesus Arguello; Valerie Arguello, Et al, Plaintiffs—Appellants, v. Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha, Defendant—Appellee.

No. 20-30382 consolidated with No. 20-30379

Decided: July 02, 2021

Before Owen, Chief Judge, and Jones, Smith, Stewart, Dennis, Elrod, Southwick, Haynes, Graves, Higginson, Costa, Willett, Ho, Duncan, Engelhardt, Oldham, and Wilson, Circuit Judges.

Craig Isenberg, Esq., Laurence D. LeSueur, Jr., Barrasso, Usdin, Kupperman, Freeman & Sarver, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, Robert Stephen Peck, Center for Constitutional Litigation, P.C., Washington, DC, Marc Fiedler, Esq., David M. Schloss, Koonz McKenney Johnson & DePaolis, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Thomas Schoenbaum, Seattle, WA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants. Eric John Matheson, Esq., Thomas M. Canevari, Esq., Cody Douglas King, Freehill Hogan & Mahar, L.L.P., New York, NY, Robert H. Murphy, Esq., Peter Bedford Tompkins, Esq., Murphy, Rogers, Sloss, Gambel & Tompkins, New Orleans, LA, for Defendant-Appellee. Alan Butler Morrison, George Washington University, School of Law, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Civil Procedure Law Professors.