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DAVIS v. BENDER SHIPBUILDING AND REPAIR CO., INC.

No. 92-36826.

27 F.3d 426 (1994)

Robert DAVIS Sr., Personal Representative of the Estate of Robert Davis Jr.; Janice Schneider, Personal Representative of the Estate of Matthew Schneider; and John Bauer, Personal Representative of the Estate of John Dieterich, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BENDER SHIPBUILDING AND REPAIR CO., INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided June 21, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Beard, and John G. Cooper, Stafford, Frey, Cooper & Stewart, Seattle, WA, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Brian P. McCarthy, Hand, Arendall, Bedsole, Greaves & Johnston, Mobile, AL, and Arden E. Page, Burr, Pease & Kurtz, Anchorage, AK, for defendant-appellee.

Before: GOODWIN, SCHROEDER and NORRIS, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge SCHROEDER.

SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal by the estates of seamen who drowned in the Bering Sea after becoming trapped in the hull of a sinking vessel. The estates seek to recover damages for lost future earnings from the ship's builder, Appellee Bender Shipbuilding, under federal general maritime law.

In Evich v. Connelly, 759 F.2d 1432 (9th Cir.1985) (Evich I), we held...

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