United States Fifth Circuit

Where the employee of an independent contractor is injured while disassembling a scaffold belonging to the premises owner, the "intimately connected" exception to premises liability charges the contractor "with constructive knowledge of defects closely related to the project for which he has been hired" relieving the premises owner of liability.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/31/2000
• Published 10/31/2000

Judges

• EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:, Before EMILIO M. GARZA, CARL E. STEWART and ROBERT M. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Douglas H. Bagwell, Robert E. Briggs, III, Hopkins, Crawley, Bagwell & Upshaw, Gulfport, MS, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Raymond Michael Ripple, Donna L. Goodman, DuPont Legal, Wilmington, DE, Terrence K. Knister, Abbott, Simses, Knister & Kuchler, New Orleans, LA, for Defendant-Appellee.