United States Fifth Circuit

An injunction preventing claimant from proceeding with his Jones Act suit in a different federal court, after shipowner filed a limitation of liability action in the current federal court and obtained the injunction, is vacated since a single claimant's choice of forum is a sufficient interest to warrant the dissolution of an injunction if the claimant files stipulations that adequately protect the shipowner's rights under the Limitation of Liability Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/30/2006
• Published 10/30/2006

Judges

• REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:, Before JONES, Chief Judge, and REAVLEY and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Anthony G. Buzbee, Joseph Sullivan Jaworski (argued), Buzbee Law Firm, Galveston, TX, William Ray Striebeck, Greenville, MS, for Sanchez.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gregory W. O'Neal (argued), Bratton & O'Neal, Memphis, TN, for Plaintiff-Appellee.