United States Fifth Circuit

A college intern injured at sea on a gravel-packing assignment at an offshore oil rig was not a seaman under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. app. section 688.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/19/2003
• Published 06/23/2003

Judges

• BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:, Before BENAVIDES, STEWART and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James Parkerson Roy (argued), Jamie D. Parker, Domengeaux, Wright, Roy & Edwards, Lafayette, LA, for Becker., Cliffe E. Laborde, III (argued), James D'Arensbourg Hollier, Laborde & Neuner, Lafayette, LA, for Tidewater Inc., Twenty Grand Offshore, Inc., Tidewater Marine LLC, Pental Ins. Co., Ltd. and Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's Ins. Co., Robert Emmett Kerrigan, Jr. (argued), Allen F. Campbell, Joseph Lee McReynolds (argued), Joseph Edward Lee, III, Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, LA, for Baker Hughes Inc., Baker Oil Tools, Inc., Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations, Inc. and Baker Oil Tools., Douglas C. Longman, Jr. (argued), George Clifford Plauche', Perret Doise, Lafayette, LA, for Hydra Rig., Paul Joseph Politz, Lynn Louise White, Taylor, Wellons, Politz & Duhe, New Orleans, LA, for Hydradyne Hydraulics, Inc., Randall K. Theunissen, Arthur I. Robison, Allen & Gooch, Lafayette, LA, for Coflexip Stena Offshore Inc.