[B]Date Decided[/B]: May 6th, 2010
[B]Decided By[/B]: Louisiana Western District Court (federal)
[B]Court[/B]: U.S.D.C. W.D. Louisiana
[B]Citation[/B]: Billiot v. Key Energy Services 2010 WL 1881278 (W.D. LA 2010)
[B]Background[/B]:
John Adams Billiot was an employee of KeyEnergy. He was originally assigned to anoffshore-based rig. At some point, KeyEnergy transferred Billiot to a land-based rig. While working on the land-based rig he suffered the injury giving riseto the present law suit. Key Energycontends that Billiot was permanently reassigned from the offshore rig to theland-based rig. Billiot argues that hewas only temporarily assigned to the land-based rig. Further, Billiot filed a motion forprotective order because of Key Energy’s failure to respond to Billiot’sdiscovery request. Read More…