United States Fifth Circuit

Grants of summary judgment to defendants, certain river pilot associations, in an age discrimination action are affirmed where defendants were not "employers" of river pilots within the meaning of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA).

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/24/2006
• Published 01/25/2006

Judges

• E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:, Before JONES, Chief Judge, and JOLLY and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William Martin McGoey (argued), Evans & Associates, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Leslie A. Lanusse (argued), William James Kelly, III, Adams & Reese, New Orleans, LA, Arthur J. Lentini, Law Offices of Arthur J. Lentini, Metairie, LA, for New Orleans and Baton Rouge Steamship Pilots' Ass'n., Peter J. Butler, Jr., Richard G. Passler, Ralph Thomas Rabalais, Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, New Orleans, LA, for Crescent River Port Pilots Ass'n, Inc., Michael R. Delesdernier, Metairie, LA, for Board of River Port Pilots Commissioners.