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affirming decision of district court by equally divided vote
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No. 94-20498.
November 26, 1996.
Michael J. Maloney, Wayne Dell Fisher, Houston, TX, Christopher Tramonte, A. Glenn Diddel, III, The Diddel Law Firm, Houston, TX, for plaintiffs-appellees.
Bruce Dixie Smith, John A. Barrett, Houston, TX, Charles Alan Wright, University of Texas Law School, Austin, TX, Richard Jeffrey Zook, Fulbright Jaworski, Houston, TX, for defendants-appellants.
Brice McAdoo Clagett, Washington, D.C., Joanne Barbara Grossman, John F. Duffy, Covington Burling, Washington, D.C., for Amer Petro Inst. and Aerospace Industries Association of America.
G. William Jarman, Gordon Damian Polozola, Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D'Armond, McCowan Jarman, Baton Rouge, LA, for Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil Gas, Ass'n and Associated Equipment Company.
Ted Catlett Litton, Houston, TX, for Steamship Mutual Underwriting Association.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Kenneth M. Hoyt, Judge.
Prior Report: 74 F.3d 567
FOR THE COURT:
By virtue of an equally divided en banc court, the judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.