In re Marquette Transportation Co. Gulf-Inland, LLC

SECTION: R

ORDER AND REASONS

SARAH S. VANCE, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

Before the Court is the Tran claimants’ “Memorandum of Law Supporting their Recovery of State Law Wrongful Death Damages,”1 as well as an opposition “Mem*608orandum of Law” filed by limitation plaintiff Marquette Transportation Company Gulf-Inland, LLC (“Marquette”).2 For the following reasons, the Court finds that decedent John Tran is a “nonseafarer” for purposes of the Supreme Court’s holding in Yamaha Motor Corp., U.S.A. v. Calhoun, 516 U.S. 199, 116 S.Ct. 619, 133 L.Ed.2d 578 (1996). Thus, Yamaha does not preclude the…