Case Name: In re NEW ORLEANS TRAIN CAR LEAKAGE FIRE LITIGATION
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2001-08-01
Citations: 794 So. 2d 954
Docket Number: No. 2000-CA-0479
Parties: In re NEW ORLEANS TRAIN CAR LEAKAGE FIRE LITIGATION.
Judges: Court composed of Chief Judge WILLIAM H. BYRNES III, Judge JOAN BERNARD ARMSTRONG and Judge JAMES F. McKAY, III.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 794
Pages: 954–955

Head Matter:
In re NEW ORLEANS TRAIN CAR LEAKAGE FIRE LITIGATION.
No. 2000-CA-0479.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.
Aug. 1, 2001.
Henry T. Dart, David P. Bains, Joseph M. Bruno, Harry E. Cantrell, Frank J. D’Amico, Calvin C. Fayard, Wendell H. Gauthier, Jack W. Harang, Darleen M. Jacobs, C. Joseph Murray, David W. Robinson, H. Edward Sherman, Thomas L. Smith, Vernon P. Thomas, T. Allen Usry, Plaintiffs’ Legal Committee.
Joseph M. Bruno, David Scalia, Anthony Irpino, Bruno & Bruno, New Orleans, LA, and Wendell H. Gauthier, Bruce C. Dean, Gauthier, Downing, LaBarre, Beiser & Dean, and T. Allen Usry, Usry & Weeks, and Henry T. Dart, Metairie, LA, Plaintiffs’ Liaison Counsel.
Darleen M. Jacobs, New Orleans, LA, and Luther F. Cole, Baton Rouge, LA, Counsel for Plaintiffs/Appellees.
Harry S. Hardin, III, Raymond J. Salas-si, Jr., Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, L.L.P., and Sam A. Leblanc, III, Adams and Reese, LLP, and Roy J. Rodney, Jr., Rodney, Bordenave, Boykin & Ehret, New Orleans, LA, Counsel for Defendant/Appellant (CSX Transportation, Inc.).
Daniel Lund, Timothy F. Daniels, David W. O’Quinn, Montgomery, Barnett, Brown, Read, Hammond & Mintz, LLP, New Orleans, LA, and Joseph L. Shea, Jr., Barlow and Hardtner, L.C., Shreveport, LA, Counsel for Defendant/Appellant (AMF-BRD, Inc.).
Eric Shuman, Dwayne C. Jefferson, McGlinchey Stafford, A.P.L.C., and K. Eric Gisleson, Douglas L. Grundmeyer, Chaffe, Mccall, Phillips, Toler & Sarpy, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, Counsel for Defendant/Appellant (Nova Chemicals, Inc.).
John S. Keller, and Richard C. Stanley, Thomas M. Flanagan, Bryan C. Reuter, Stanley & Flanagan, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, Amicus Curiae (The City of New Orleans).
Taylor L. Caffery, American Lung Association of Louisiana, Inc., Baton Rouge, LA, Amicus Curiae (The American Lung Association of Louisiana, Inc.).
Court composed of Chief Judge WILLIAM H. BYRNES III, Judge JOAN BERNARD ARMSTRONG and Judge JAMES F. McKAY, III.

Opinion:
ON APPLICATION FOR REHEARING
JOAN BERNARD ARMSTRONG, Judge.
The application for rehearing of AMF-BRD, Inc. ("AMF BRD") is denied. As AMF-BRD was the fabricator of the tank, it was the duty of AMF-BRD, not NACC, to apply the warning to the tank.