EFFJOHN INTERN. CRUISE HOLDINGS, INC. v. A&L SALES

Nos. 02-30250, 02-30335, 02-30360, 02-30414.

346 F.3d 552 (2003)

EFFJOHN INTERNATIONAL CRUISE HOLDINGS, INC.; Eff-Shipping Ltd., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. A&L SALES, INC.; Reliable Disposal Co., Inc.; Freret Marine Supply; Amwest Surety Insurance Co.; Swiss Reinsurance America Corp.; Cooper/T Smith Stevedoring, Inc.; Crescent Towing, Inc.; Marine Medical Unit, Inc.; George Ott Transportation, Inc.; Castrol North America, Inc.; Advance Marine, Inc.; Scheuring Security, Inc., Intervenor Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. ENCHANTED ISLE MV, etc.; et al., Defendants. Effjohn International Cruise Holdings, Inc.; et al., Plaintiffs, A&L Sales, Inc.; Reliable Disposal Co., Inc.; Freret Marine Supply; Amwest Surety Insurance Co.; Swiss Reinsurance America Corp.; Cooper/T Smith Stevedoring, Inc.; Crescent Towing, Inc.; Marine Medical Unit, Inc.; George Ott Transportation, Inc.; Castrol North America, Inc.; Advance Marine, Inc.; Scheuring Security, Inc., Intervenor Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. ENCHANTED ISLE MV, etc.; et al., Defendants, Cusimano Produce Co., Movant-Appellant. Freret Marine Supply, a division of Freret Hardware, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee, Noel Nolasco; Eduardo Sedo; Sergiy Bilogolovy; Oleksandr Zhukov; Yuriy Palamarchuk; et al., Intervenor Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. ENCHANTED CAPRI MV, etc., Defendant, Amwest Surety Insurance Co.; Swiss Reinsurance America Corp., Intervenor Plaintiffs-Appellants. Effjohn International Cruise Holdings, Inc.; et al., Plaintiffs, Effjohn International Cruise Holdings, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee, A&L Sales, Inc.; Reliable Disposal Co., Inc.; Freret Marine Supply, Intervenor Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Amwest Surety Insurance Co.; Swiss Reinsurance America Corp.; Intervenor Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ENCHANTED ISLE MV, etc.; et al., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 19, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Boies Sharpe (argued), Nathan P. Horner, Stewart F. Peck, Lugenbuhl, Wheaton, Peck, Rankin & Hubbard, New Orleans, LA, Bruce G. Paulsen (argued), Seward & Kissell, New York City, for Effjohn Intern. Cruise Holdings Inc. and Eff-Shipping Ltd.

Andrew S. de Klerk (argued), Pamela Lynn Schultz, Frilot, Partridge, Kohnke & Clements, New Orleans, LA, for A&L Sales, Inc., Reliable Disposal Co., Inc., Freret Marine Supply, Cooper/T Smith Stevedoring Inc., Crescent Towing Inc., Marine Medical Unit Inc., George Ott Transp. Inc., Castrol North America Inc., Advance Marine Inc. and Scheuring Sec. Inc.

Joseph P. Tynan (argued), Montgomery, Barnett, Brown, Read, Hammond & Mintz, New Orleans, LA, for Amwest Sur. Ins. Co. and Swiss Reinsurance America Corp.

J. Kendall Rathburn (argued), Mollere, Flanagan & Landry, Metairie, LA, for Cusimano Produce Co.

Richard J. Dodson, Dodson & Hooks, Baton Rouge, LA, for Nolasco, Sedo, Bilogolovy, Zhukov, Palamarchuk and others.

Before SMITH and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges, and DUPLANTIER, District Judge.


RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:

These consolidated interlocutory appeals are from admiralty proceedings that arise out of the bankruptcy of New Commodore Cruise Lines and its vessel-owning affiliates and concern maritime lien claims by creditors of two Commodore cruise ships. Primarily at issue are: (1) whether denying intervention by two maritime lien claimants for one of those two vessels constituted an abuse of discretion; and (2) whether the surety for...

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