PEREZ De La CRUZ v. CROWLEY TOWING & TRANSP. CO.

No. 86-1419.

807 F.2d 1084 (1986)

Narciso Rafael PEREZ De La CRUZ, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. CROWLEY TOWING AND TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 18, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip E. Roberts, Hato Rey, P.R., with whom Harry A. Ezratty, San Juan, P.R., was on brief for plaintiffs, appellants.

F. Henry Habicht, II, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C., Daniel F. Lopez-Romo, U.S. Atty., Hato Rey, P.R., Jacques B. Gelin and Michael W. Reed, Dept. of Justice, David A. Colson and Eugene M. Pinkelmann, Jr., Oceans Intern. Environmental and Scientific Affairs, Dept. of State, Washington, D.C., on brief, for U.S., amicus curiae.

J. Ramon Rivera-Morales with whom William A. Graffam, David C. Indiano and Jimenez, Graffam & Lausell, San Juan, P.R., were on brief, for defendant, appellee.

Rafael Ortiz-Carrion, Sol. Gen., Norma Cotti-Cruz, Deputy Sol. Gen., and Vannessa Ramirez, Asst. Sol. Gen., Hato Rey, P.R., on brief, for Com. of Puerto Rico, amicus curiae.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, TIMBERS, Senior Circuit Judge, and BREYER, Circuit Judge.


TIMBERS, Senior Circuit Judge:

Narciso Rafael Perez de la Cruz ("appellant") and his wife appeal from a summary judgment entered February 19, 1986 in the District of Puerto Rico, Juan M. Perez-Gimenez, Chief Judge, dismissing their complaint. The complaint alleged that appellee Crowley Towing & Transportation Company ("appellee") was liable under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. § 688 (1982), for injuries sustained...

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