United States Fifth Circuit

Plaintiff failed to show that a drilling rig was "attached" to and "erected" on the seabed of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), and thus did not establish that no issue of material fact existed as to whether the location of a contractor employee's alleged injury qualifies as an OCS Lands Act situs.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/30/2002
• Published 08/30/2002

Judges

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

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard C. Rutledge, III (argued), Drucker, Rutledge, Ward & Smith, The Woodlands, TX, for A&B Builders, Inc.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kenneth Ross Citti, Citti & Crinion, Houston, TX, William Scott Hastings (argued), Locke, Liddell & Sapp, Dallas, TX, for Plaintiffs-Counter Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.