Legal Opinion
Powell v. Global Marine, LLC
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Decided December 4, 2009No. Civil Action Nos.: 08-3842, 09-3869Published
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER AND REASONS
SARAH S. VANCE, District Judge.
Before the Court is defendant Global Marine LLC’s Motion to Dismiss. R. Doc. 21. 1 For the following reasons, the motion is GRANTED.
I. Background
These consolidated cases arise out of a voyage of the M/V DOUGLAS MACARTHUR (“MACARTHUR”), which sabed from Amelia, Louisiana, to the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Dominican Republic in May of 2005. Plaintiffs Charles Powell and Christopher Wyman joined the crew of the MACARTHUR as deckhands in April of 2005. Both were to receive payment of $175 per day from defendant, their maritime employer, to be paid…
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