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KOOHI v. U.S.

Nos. 90-16107, 90-16159.

976 F.2d 1328 (1992)

Mitra KOOHI; Iman Koohi, minor daughter; Kosar Koohi, minor daughter; Hassan Almassi; Iran Air Flight 655, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America; United States Department of Navy, Defendants-Appellees. Elizabeth H. BAILEY, as the personal representative, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. VARIAN ASSOCIATES, INC.; General Electric Co.; GE Aerospace; RCA Corp; Harnischfeger Industries; Syscon Corp.; Computer Sciences Corporation; John Connor, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided October 8, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce A. Bailey, Burlingame, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Jeffrey Clair, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., and Matthew D. Powers, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Robert W. Hallock, James K. Meguerian, D'Ancona & Pflaum, Chicago, Ill., for Syscon Corp.

Before: SCHROEDER, REINHARDT, and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.

REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:

The tragedy that gives rise to this lawsuit — the shooting down of a civilian aircraft by a United States warship — occurred in the midst of the undeclared "tanker war" that was a part of the larger hostilities between the nations of Iran and Iraq. During the tanker war, each of those nations attacked vessels carrying the other's oil. In August, 1986, Iran began to concentrate its...

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