Citation Codes Equivalent Citations citation codes Docket Number No. 94-20498. Attorney(S) Michael J. Maloney, Wayne Dell Fisher, Houston, TX, Christopher Tramonte, A. Glenn Diddel, III, The Diddel Law Firm, Houston, TX, for plaintiffs-appellees. Bruce Dixie Smith, John A. Barrett, Houston, TX, Charles Alan Wright, University of Texas Law School, Austin, TX, Richard Jeffrey Zook, Fulbright Jaworski, Houston, TX, for defendants-appellants. Brice McAdoo Clagett, Washington, D.C., Joanne Barbara Grossman, John F. Duffy, Covington Burling, Washington, D.C., for Amer Petro Inst. and Aerospace Industries Association of America. G. William Jarman, Gordon Damian Polozola, Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D'Armond, McCowan Jarman, Baton Rouge, LA, for Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil Gas, Ass'n and Associated Equipment Company. Ted Catlett Litton, Houston, TX, for Steamship Mutual Underwriting Association. Judges Henry Anthony Politz William Lockhart Garwood E. Grady Jolly Patrick Errol Higginbotham W. Eugene Davis John Malcolm Duhe Jacques Loeb Wiener Harold R. DeMoss Fortunato Pedro Benavides Carl E. Stewart James L. Dennis Carolyn Dineen King See more information ... Smart Summary Please sign up to generate summary. VICTOR C. BARIS, ET AL., PLAINTIFFS-APPELLEES, v. SULPICIO LINES, INC., ET AL., DEFENDANTS, CALTEX PETROLEUM, INC., ET AL., DEFENDANTS-APPELLANTS. FOR THE COURT: By virtue of an equally divided en banc court, the judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.