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IN RE GLACIER BAY

No. 94-35183.

71 F.3d 1447 (1995)

In re The GLACIER BAY. UNITED COOK INLET DRIFT ASSOC., an Alaska Cooperative Corp., on Behalf of a Class Comprising Its Members and Its Members' Deckhands, Plaintiffs, v. TRINIDAD CORPORATION; West of England Ship Owners; Mark Hawker; Kee Leasing Co.; Mathiasen's Tanker Industries, Inc.; Glacier Bay Transportation Corporation, Defendants-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided November 30, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dawn M. Schock, Keesal, Young & Logan, Los Angeles, California, for defendants-appellants.

R. Michael Underhill, United States Trial Attorney, San Francisco, California, for defendant-appellee.

Before: POOLE, BOOCHEVER and WIGGINS, Circuit Judges.

POOLE, Circuit Judge:

Various parties with interests in the oil tanker Glacier Bay (collectively "Trinidad") appeal the district court's dismissal of their suit against the United States under the Suits in Admiralty Act. Trinidad's suit alleges that the government's negligence in preparing nautical charts was partly responsible for the Glacier Bay running aground on a rock in Cook Inlet, Alaska. The district court concluded that the alleged acts of negligence...

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