BILDERBECK v. WORLD WIDE SHIPPING AGENCY

No. 84-2580.

776 F.2d 817 (1985)

Eugene BILDERBECK, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WORLD WIDE SHIPPING AGENCY, a corporation, Frankolyn Shipping, Ltd; Star Shipping A/S, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided November 13, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip R. Weltin, Weltin & Van Dam, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

Wayne F. Emard, Acret & Perrochet, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Before MERRILL and GOODWIN, Circuit Judges, and WILLIAMS, District Judge.


GOODWIN, Circuit Judge.

Eugene Bilderbeck, an injured longshoreman, appeals from a summary judgment in favor of defendant shipowners. The district court granted summary judgment after striking from Bilderbeck's pleading his allegations of liability based on a theory that the shipowner had placed on the market or in the workplace a dangerously defective product (ship). We affirm.

In 1972, Congress amended the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation...

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