Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit June 26, 1981, 80-4004 (Wilsey Poirrier v. Nicklos Drilling Company)

TATE, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff Poirrier places a single issue before this court for resolution: Whether a maritime personal injury action, commenced in state court under the “saving to suitors” clause of 28 U.S.C. § 1333,

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can be removed to federal court on grounds of diversity of citizenship.

Poirrier was injured on an inland submersible drilling barge on the Atchafalaya River in Louisiana.