BARIS v. SULPICIO LINES, INC

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.