Houston v. Avondale's Shipyards, Inc.

Relators seek writs from a district court judgment overruling a declinatory exception of lis pendens.

Plaintiff Mose Houston filed suit in United States District Court alleging he contracted a lung disease as a result of his employment as a sandblaster with Avon-dale Shipyards. He also sued in the Twenty-Fourth Judicial District Court and Orleans Civil District Court. Defendants-Re-lators Underwriters at Lloyd’s and Companies filed a declinatory exception of lis pen-dens in Civil District Court, alleging that the Federal and Jefferson suits are substantially identical. The trial court…