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BARRINEAU v. SUB SEA INTERN., INC.

No. 1:96-CV-0226.

940 F.Supp. 153 (1996)

Richard Lynn BARRINEAU, Jr., Edward Robert Bartlett, Jeffrey Colling, Troy Havins, Roger Wayne Lyon, Michael Spivey, Wayne A. Tennyson, Michael J. Rousell, Hollis "Glenn" Roley, and Mitchell "Mickey" E. Keith v. SUB SEA INTERNATIONAL, INC., Dresser Industries, Inc., OPI International Vessels, Ltd., J. Ray McDermott, Inc., and Brown & Root, Inc.

United States District Court, E.D. Texas, Beaumont Division.

August 20, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew D. Shaffer, Arthur L. Schechter Associates, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff.

Edward Donald Burbach, Jana Hale Woelfel, Griggs & Harrison, Houston, TX, Hubert Oxford III, Benckenstein & Oxford, Beaumont, TX, for Defendant.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

COBB, District Judge.

Before the court is the defendant's motion to dismiss for improper venue, or in the alternative, for change of venue. Special venue rules apply to a Jones Act action such as this one. These venue provisions are found within the substantive law itself at 46 U.S.C.App. § 688.

I. VENUE IS PROPER

Under the Federal Rules of...

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