United States Fifth Circuit

In an action seeking insurance coverage for cleanup of an oil rig damaged by hurricane Katrina, a district court's order remanding the case to a Texas state court is affirmed where the policy at issue contained a waiver of the right to remove the case to federal court.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/13/2009
• Published 08/13/2009

Judges

• JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:, Before JOLLY, SMITH and OWEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• David Wallace Holman (argued), Holman Law Firm, PC, Michael J. Maloney, Maloney, Martin & Associates, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Chester Joseph Makowski, Royston Rayzor, Harold K. Watson (argued), Christopher Benjamin Dove, Locke, Lord, Bissell & Liddell, L.L.P., Houston, TX, for Defendants-Appellants.