United States Fifth Circuit

COLREG Rule 8(c) is suggestive, not mandatory, so the district court need not have applied the Pennsylvania Rule (providing a rebuttable presumption of fault to violations of admiralty rules) in determining causation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/03/2001
• Published 01/03/2001

Judges

• CUDAHY, Circuit Judge:, Before KING, Chief Judge, and WIENER and CUDAHY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William Sean O'Neil, Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, LA, for The Associated Branch Pilots of the Port of New Orleans, Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Hugh Ramsay Straub (argued), Michael MacKenzie Butterworth, Terriberry, Carroll & Yancey, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee., George J. Fowler, III (argued), Edward F. LeBreton, III, Jon Wesley Wise, Pablo E. Carrillo, Rice, Fowler, Kingsmill, Vance, Flint & Rodriguez, New Orleans, LA, John Carl Overby, Blue Williams, Metairie, LA, for Defendants-Appellants.