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SMITH v. TRINIDAD CORPORATION

No. 91-16826.

992 F.2d 996 (1993)

Cheryl SMITH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. TRINIDAD CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided May 10, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth W. Rosenthal, San Francisco, CA, for plaintiff-appellant.

Norman J. Ronneberg, Rice, Fowler, Kingsmill, Vance, Flint & Booth, San Francisco, CA, for defendant-appellee.

Before GOODWIN, HUG and FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Cheryl Smith appeals a summary judgment which denied her claim for loss of consortium in her action against the shipowner on whose vessel her husband sustained an injury. We affirm.

The Supreme Court in Miles v. Apex Marine Corp., 498 U.S. 19, 111 S.Ct. 317, 112 L.Ed.2d 275 (1990) precluded actions for loss of society under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.App. § 688, and general admiralty law. We agree with the...

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