United States Fifth Circuit

Denial of defendants' motions for partial summary judgment is reversed as to claims under general maritime law, the Oil Pollution Act (OPA), the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), and state law since claimants who suffered no physical damage to a proprietary interest could not recover for their purely economic losses as a result of a maritime allision.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/23/2006
• Published 03/24/2006

Judges

• CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:, Before BENAVIDES, STEWART and OWEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kevin Reeve Duck, Duck Law Firm, Lafayette, LA, for Mason., W. Gerald Gaudet (argued), Mary M. Hamilton, James P. Doherty, III, Voorhies & Labbe, Lafayette, LA, for Louisiana Dept. of Transp. & Development., Kenneth W. DeJean (argued), Law Office of Kenneth DeJean, Lafayette, LA, for Coastline Marine, Inc., Reeks, Bagala's Quality Oysters, Inc., Douglas and Crystal Olander, Jurisich, Kleinpeter, Dore and Legnon Enterprises, Inc., Michael Ray Mangham, Mangham & Fuqua, Lafayette, LA, for Marine Turbine Technologies LLC, MTT Properties LLC and MTT Mfg. LLC., Cliffe E. Laborde, III (argued), Melissa L. Theriot, Laborde & Neuner, Lafayette, LA, for Morton Intern., Inc. and CVD, Inc., David Michael Thorguson, Alfred S. Lippman, Lippman, Mahfouz & Martin, Morgan City, LA, for Twin Bros. Marine, Kirby Inland Marine, Inc. and Twin Bros. Marine Corp., Richard C. Broussard, Broussard & David, Lafayette, LA, for North America Salt Co. and Carey Salt Co., Blake R. David (argued), Broussard & David, Lafayette, LA, for Carey Salt Co.