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FOR IMMEDIATE NEWS RELEASE NEWS RELEASE # 003 FROM: CLERK OF SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA

The Opinions handed down on the 19th day of January, 2006 , are as follows:

BY KNOLL, J. :

2005-C -0002

LEON L. GIORGIO, JR. v. ALLIANCE OPERATING CORPORATION, GULFSTREAM RESOURCES, INC., BURLINGTON RESOURCES, ET AL., CHEVRON USA, INC., SUPERIOR OILFIELD SERVICES, INC., STATE OF LOUISIANA THROUGH ITS DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, LLOYDS UNDERWRITERS AT LLOYDS, ET AL. C/W JACQUES A. SANBORN v. ALLIANCE OPERATING CORPORATION, GULFSTREAM RESOURCES, INC., BURLINGTON RESOURCES, ET AL., CHEVRON USA, INC., SUPERIOR OILFIELD SERVICES, INC., STATE OF LOUISIANA, THROUGH ITS DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, LLOYDS UNDERWRITERS AT LLOYDS, ET AL. (Parish of Plaquemines) Retired Judge Phillip C. Ciaccio, assigned as Justice Pro Tempore, sitting for Associate Justice Catherine D. Kimball. For the foregoing reasons, we reverse the court of appeal's judgment. REVERSED.

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SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA NO. 05-C-0002 LEON L. GIORGIO, JR. VERSUS ALLIANCE OPERATING CORPORATION, GULFSTREAM RESOURCES, INC., BURLINGTON RESOURCES, ET AL., CHEVRON USA, INC., SUPERIOR OILFIELD SERVICES, INC., STATE OF LOUISIANA THROUGH ITS DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, LLOYDS UNDERWRITERS AT LLOYDS, ET AL. CONSOLIDATED WITH JACQUES A. SANBORN VERSUS ALLIANCE OPERATING CORPORATION, GULFSTREAM RESOURCES, INC., BURLINGTON RESOURCES, ET AL., CHEVRON USA, INC., SUPERIOR OILFIELD SERVICES, INC., STATE OF LOUISIANA, THROUGH ITS DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, LLOYDS UNDERWRITERS AT LLOYDS, ET AL. ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEAL FOURTH CIRCUIT, PARISH OF PLAQUEMINES

KNOLL, Justice* This civil case addresses the legal question of whether the State of Louisiana is liable for an allision1 that occurred when a fishing boat allided with an unlit, unmarked "orphaned" oilfield production platform in the Breton Sound area of the Gulf of Mexico. The plaintiffs, Leon L. Giorgio and Jacques A. Sanborn, sued the

Retired Judge Philip C. Ciaccio, assigned as Justice Pro Tempore, sitting for Associate Justice Catherine D. Kimball. "An allision is a collision between a moving vessel and a stationary object." Thomas J. Schoenbaum, Admiralty and Maritime Law

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