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HAHN v. BOEING COMPANY

No. 47005-7.

95 Wn.2d 28 (1980)

621 P.2d 1263

RUDI HAHN, ET AL, Petitioners, v. THE BOEING COMPANY, ET AL, Respondents.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

December 31, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Trethewey, Brink, Rossi, Todd & Clayton, by Daniel Brink and Winship A. Todd, Jr., and Krutch, Lindell, Donnelly & Judkins, by Richard F. Krutch, for petitioners.

Perkins, Coie, Stone, Olson & Williams, by Richard C. Coyle and Keith Gerrard, for respondents.

Kurt M. Bulmer on behalf of State Bar Association and Daniel F. Sullivan, Jeffrey Robert White, and Harry M. Philo on behalf of Association of Trial Lawyers of America, amici curiae.

ROSELLINI, J.

This is a suit brought by 56 parties against the manufacturer of a Boeing 747 airplane which crashed in Nairobi, Kenya, in November 1974. The petitioners are survivors of the crash and representatives of the estates of victims. They reside in seven countries.

From the beginning, attorneys Gerald C. Sterns and Thomas G. Smith, members of the California bar who maintain practices in that state, have been...

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