United States Fifth Circuit

A district court may not delay recovery to the claimants who filed suits in state court and are parties to the 46 USC 193 limitation proceedings on the mere speculation that others exist to whom a cause of action has accrued.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/19/2001
• Published 04/19/2001

Judges

• REYNALDO G. GARZA, Circuit Judge:, Before REYNALDO G. GARZA, STEWART and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Cliffe E. Laborde, III (argued), Susan Stagg Robinson, Laborde & Neuner, Lafayette, LA, for Tidewater, Inc., Tidewater Marine, Inc. and Twenty Grand Offshore Inc., Joseph L. Waitz, Jr. (argued), Waitz & Downer, Houma, LA, for Tina A. Stelly.