Case ID: so2d_566/html/0377-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MARCUS and LEMMON, JJ.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Euris Buster FONTENOT, Jr. v. ZAPATA GULF MARINE CORP.
    No. 90-CC-1273.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Sept. 14, 1990.
   IN RE: Zapata Gulf Marine Supply Corp; —Defendant(s); Applying for Supervisory and/or Remedial Writs; Parish of Evangeline 13th Judicial District Court Div. “B” Number 48,512; to the Court of Appeal, Third Circuit, Number CW90-0458.

Denied.

MARCUS and LEMMON, JJ.,

would grant permitting Zapata Gulf Marine Corp. a jury trial on the Jones Act and other state claims. The trial judge can try the admiralty and general maritime claims. See Gauchet v. Chevron U.S.A., Inc., 541 So.2d 272 (La.App. 4th Cir.1989).