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OLYMPIA SAUNA COMPANIA NAVIERA, S.A. v. U.S.

Civ. No. 80-699LE.

604 F.Supp. 1297 (1984)

OLYMPIA SAUNA COMPANIA NAVIERA, S.A., as Owner of the M/V YPATIA HALCOUSSI, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, et al., Defendants. UNITED STATES of America, Third-Party Plaintiff, v. Kenneth FLETCHER, in personam and the M/V YPATIA HALCOUSSI, Her Engines, Tackle, Appurtenances, etc., in rem, Third-Party Defendants. Kenneth FLETCHER, Fourth-Party Plaintiff, v. KERR STEAMSHIP COMPANY, INC., a New York corporation, Fourth-Party Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Oregon.

September 11, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert I. Sanders, Paul N. Wonacott, Wood, Tatum, Mosser, Brooke & Holden, Portland, Or., for plaintiff.

Paul Gary Sterling, Pecos Bill Field, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Torts Branch, Civil Division, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant.

OPINION and ORDER

LEAVY, District Judge:

The Ypatia Halcoussi was being piloted by a local river pilot in March 1980 when she turned onto Warrior Rock Reef, in the Columbia River. Her owner, the plaintiff Olympia Sauna Compania Naviera (Olympia), a Panamanian corporation, claims that the United States Coast Guard negligently mispositioned a buoy that marks the reef. Olympia contends that the mispositioned buoy was the sole cause of the vessel's grounding...

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