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Case: 08-30969     Document: 00511115995          Page: 1    Date Filed: 05/19/2010

            IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                     FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT  United States Court of Appeals
                                                     Fifth Circuit

                                                  FILED
                                                                            May 13, 2010
                                     No. 09-30989
                                   Summary Calendar                         Lyle W. Cayce
                                                                                 Clerk

KELVIN WELLS,

                                                   Plaintiff-Appellant

v.

TIMOTHY TRAYNOR,

                                                   Defendant-Appellee

                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                       for the Middle District of Louisiana
                             USDC No. 3:09-CV-649

Before GARZA, CLEMENT, and OWEN, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:*
        Kelvin Wells appeals the dismissal of his civil suit against Timothy
Traynor. Wells claims that Traynor caused the death of his father as retaliation
for Wells’s whistleblowing activities. The magistrate judge construed Wells’s
complaint as a claim for wrongful death under L A. C IV. C ODE art. 2315.2 and
recommended dismissal of the claim without prejudice for lack of subject matter
jurisdiction, because the defendant was also a resident of Louisiana. Wells did
not object to the magistrate’s recommendation and the case was dismissed. On

        *
         Pursuant to 5TH CIR . R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not
be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR .
R. 47.5.4.
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appeal, he argues that the death took place onboard the M/V ATLANTIC on
November 22, 1997 and that the district court thus had maritime jurisdiction.
Even if these allegations would be sufficient to establish the district court’s
jurisdiction, they were not raised before the district court and are waived on
appeal. The judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.

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