UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT _______________________ No. 01-40070 Civil Docket #2:99-CV-233 _______________________ MERLIN PORE, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Weylin Pore, WANDA PORE, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Weylin Pore, Plaintiffs-Appellants, versus GREGORY A. BARKSDALE; ET AL, Defendants, GREGORY A. BARKSDALE, Defendant-Appellee. _________________________________________________________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas _________________________________________________________________ December 13, 2001 Before JONES, EMILIO M. GARZA, and STEWART, Circuit Judges.* PER CURIAM: The court has carefully considered this appeal in light of the briefs, oral argument and pertinent portions of the record. Having done so, we find no reversible error of fact or law in the * 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 R. 47.5, the Court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR.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. district court’s judgment and its choice of law determination. Notwithstanding the able arguments of appellants’ counsel, the district court did not err in concluding that Kansas had the most significant relationship to this case, it was the place of the accident, the residence of the victim, a principal place of the individual defendant’s employment, and the place of injury and neither Texas nor Virginia had a more significant relationship to the litigation. AFFIRMED. 2