A Texas appellate court denied an employer’s petition for interlocutory review of a trial judge’s determination that its employee was a Jones Act seaman at the time of his alleged injury while being transported to shore.
Case: Orion Marine Construction v. Cepeda, No. 01-18-00323-CV, 06/21/2018, published.
Facts and procedural history: Inocente Cepeda had worked for Orion Marine Construction as the captain of a dredge.
His dredge was operating in the Houston Ship Channel when his supervisor came aboard and fired him. Cepeda gathered his personal belongings and boarded a skiff, wh...
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