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Nature of Suit Code: 340
Nature of Suit: Marine Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1333 Marine-Exoneration from/or Limitation of Liability

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA

SOUTHERN DIVISION

IN RE: THE MATTER OF TAIRA )

LYNN LIMITED NO. 7, etc., et al., )

PRAYING FOR EXONERATION ) CIVIL ACTION 13-0318-WS-C

FROM OR LIMITATION OF )

LIABILITY ) 

ORDER

Counsel for claimant Andre Files has filed a suggestion of Files’ death. 

(Doc. 724). The suggestion is noted, with the reminder that, “[i]f [a] motion [to 

substitute] is not made within 90 days after service of a statement noting the death, 

the action by or against the decedent must be dismissed.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 25(a)(1).

Counsel “[m]oves and asks the court to abate this Matter as to the claims of 

Andre Files until a proper representative is appointed.” Because no showing of 

the factual necessity or legal propriety of such a stay has been offered, the motion 

is denied.

1

DONE and ORDERED this 9th day of May, 2016.

s/ WILLIAM H. STEELE

CHIEF UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

 1 Counsel assures the Court that a motion to substitute “will be filed as soon as an 

estate representative is appointed,” so the Court can perceive no reason counsel cannot 

continue to prosecute this action in the brief interim.

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