                 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                      For the Fifth Circuit

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                           No. 01-30609
                           No. 01-30682
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                        GERARD MENDONCA,

                                             Plaintiff-Appellant,

                             VERSUS


                        TIDEWATER, INC.,
                                                 Defendant-Appellee.

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  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
                District of Louisiana, New Orleans
                            00-CV-2284-C
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                           March 7, 2002



Before ALDISERT,* DAVIS, and PARKER, Circuit Judges

PER CURIAM:**

     We affirm the judgment of the district court essentially for

the reasons stated by the district court in its Orders and Reasons

of March 21 and April 9, 2001 and by the magistrate judge in his

Minute Entry of April 18, 2001.


     *
      Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit,
sitting by designation.
     **
      Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the Court has determined that
this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except
under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.
      Plaintiff-Appellant asserts an additional argument on appeal.

He   now    seeks     to   assert    state    law   claims     based   on   diversity

jurisdiction.         Even if we were to consider this argument, raised

for the first time on appeal, Plaintiff-Appellant did not allege

facts      in   the   district      court    sufficient   to    trigger     diversity

jurisdiction.

      The judgment of the district court is therefore AFFIRMED.
