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IN RE GLACIER BAY

No. 90-35589.

944 F.2d 577 (1991)

In re The GLACIER BAY. KEE LEASING COMPANY; Mathiasen's Tanker Industries, Inc.; Glacier Bay Transportation Corp.; Trinidad Corporation, Appellants, v. Merrill McGAHAN, et al.; Trans-Alaska Liability Fund; Kenai Pipe Line Co.; S.P.C. Shipping, Inc.; Tesoro Alaska Petroleum Company; Cook Inlet Recourse Organization, et al.; United States of America, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided September 13, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael H. Woodell and Jean E. Kizer, Bradbury, Bliss & Riordan, Anchorage, Alaska, for appellants.

Philip A. Berns, Asst. U.S. Atty., U.S. Dept. of Justice, San Francisco, Cal., A. Stephen Hut, Jr., Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C., and Brian B. O'Neill, Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, Minn., Gary J. Strauss, Garvey, Schubert & Barer, Seattle, Wash., for appellees.

Linus Masouredis, Deputy Atty. Gen., Oakland, Cal., for amici curiae.

Before WIGGINS, BRUNETTI and T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges.

WIGGINS, Circuit Judge:

Kee Leasing Company, Mathiasen's Tanker Industries, Inc., Glacier Bay Transportation Corp., and Trinidad Corporation (collectively "Trinidad") appeal from an order of the district court dismissing their complaint. In the complaint, Trinidad petitioned for an exoneration from and limitation of its liability for claims arising out of the 1987 grounding of an oil tanker, the Glacier Bay, in Cook Inlet, Alaska. The district court ruled that the...

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