Tag: Removal

• Maritime Casualty

  Texas Court Holds That Maritime Claims Are Removable To Federal Court

  • June 5, 2013
  • By Allen & Gooch
  

  More Maritime Claims Are Removable in Texas Now Federal district courts have original jurisdiction over admiralty and maritime lawsuits (i.e. “admiralty jurisdiction”), but these suits typically cannot be removed from state to federal court. However, last month in Ryan v. Hercules Offshore, Inc., 945 F.Supp.2d 772 (S.D. Tex. May 13, 2013), the Southern District of Texas held that […]

• Maritime Casualty

  U.S. Fifth Circuit Discusses Removal Of OCSLA Claims

  • March 25, 2013
  • By Allen & Gooch

  In a February 2013 opinion, Barker v. Hercules Offshore, Inc., 706 F.3d 680 (5th Cir. 2013), the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals expounded on procedural issues involving removal of cases to federal court pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA), 43 U.S.C.A. 1331, et seq (West 2012). The opinion cleared up problematic issues of subject matter jurisdiction, […]