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DRAKE v. PANAMA CANAL COM'N

No. 89-3110.

907 F.2d 532 (1990)

Aminta DRAKE, etc., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PANAMA CANAL COMMISSION, etc., Defendant-Appellee. Luis Carlos AVILA LUJAN and Jose Gabriel Guardiola, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. PANAMA CANAL COMMISSION, etc., Defendant-Appellee. Teresa Isabel FERNANDEZ, etc., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PANAMA CANAL COMMISSION, etc., Defendant-Appellee. Rachel E. LEWIS, etc., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PANAMA CANAL COMMISSION, etc., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 2, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

DeRussy, Bezou & Matthews, John G. DeRussy, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

Renee Clark McGinty, Asst. U.S. Atty., John P. Volz, U.S. Atty., New Orleans, La., for defendant-appellee.

Before THORNBERRY, GARWOOD and DUHÉ, Circuit Judges.

GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs-appellants Aminta Drake, et al., (appellants) appeal a judgment in favor of the Panama Canal Commission (Commission). We affirm, but modify the judgment of dismissal on the merits to one of dismissal for want of jurisdiction.

Facts and Proceedings Below

On September 23, 1984, an explosion and resulting fire at the Industrial Division facility at Mount Hope in the Republic of Panama injured Victor Torres, Luis Lujan...

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