Legal Opinion
Mocklin v. Orleans Levee District
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Decided July 18, 1988No. Civ. A. 88-1199PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER AND REASONS
FELDMAN, District Judge.
Plaintiffs, Louis and Maria Mocklin, brought this action for damages arising out of the death of their young son. On the afternoon of July 17, 1986, eight-year-old Louis P. Mocklin and his seven-year-old brother, Patrick, were playing along a levee near Lake Ponchartrain in New Orleans. According to Patrick, Louis waded out approximately one hundred feet into the lake and then suddenly disappeared from sight. Louis’s body was found by the police the next day in eight feet of water. He had drowned.
Louis’s parents sued the Orleans Levee District and its…
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Williams v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1995
- Mocklin v. Orleans Levee DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1989
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- Patricia Williams v. United States of America, & Third Party v. Meridian Management Corporation, Formerly Known as Contract Services Company, Incorporated, Third PartyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1995
- Louis F. Mocklin, Jr., Husband Of/and Maria Ryan Mocklin v. The Orleans Levee District and Its Board of Levee Commissioners, Defendants-Third Party and Luhr Brothers, Inc., the Home Insurance Co., and City Insurance Co., Defendants-Cross v. United States Army Corps of Engineers, Third Party Defendant-CrossCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1989
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