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BLOME v. AEROSPATIALE HELICOPTER CORP.

Civil Action No. G-95-082.

924 F.Supp. 805 (1996)

Nancy BLOME, individually and as Next Friend of Charles Blome, II, and Katie Blome, Minor Children, and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Charles Blome, Jr., Deceased, v. AEROSPATIALE HELICOPTER CORPORATION, Societe Nationale Industrielle Aerospatiale, Aerospatiale Capital Corporation, American Eurocopter Corporation, Sea Link Helicopters, Inc., Tex-Air Helicopters, Inc., Anthony A. Loague, John Lockwood, and Ann Lockwood.

United States District Court, S.D. Texas, Galveston Division.

April 30, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest H. Cannon, Ernest Cannon & Associates, Houston, TX, for plaintiffs.

Michael Vance Powell, Locke Purnell Rain & Harrell, PC, Dallas, TX, William L. Robinson, Lillick & Charles, Long Beach, CA, for Aerospatiale Helicopter Corp., Societe Nationale Industrielle Aerospatiale, Aerospatiale, Inc., Aerospatiale Capital Corporation, American Eurocopter Corporation.

James Lane Ware, McLeod Alexander Powel & Apffel, PC, Galveston, TX, Kenneth H. Laborde, Leo R. McAloon, III, Pulaski Gieger & Laborde, New Orleans, LA, for Tex-Air Helicopters.

James Richard Watkins, Jr., Royston, Rayzor, Vickery & Williams, Galveston, TX, for Nalling Shipping Ltd., Nevis Shipping Ltd., Red Band, defendant.

James Martin Davin, Houston, TX, for R & O Motorship Agencies Texas, Inc.

Harold H. Walker, Jr., Gardere, Wynne, Sewell & Riggs, LLP, Houston, TX, Michael William Kerensky, O'Quinn Kerensky & McAninch, Houston, TX, William J. Clay, Martin E. Rose, Gardere & Wynne, Dallas, TX, for Sea Link Helicopters, Inc., Anthony A. Loague, John Lockwood, Ann Lockwood.

Michael R. McGown, Beaumont, TX, for Charles Blome, Sr.

ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT

KENT, District Judge.

Charles Blome, Jr., an inspector for the United States Coast Guard, was killed when the helicopter transporting him to a vessel to be inspected crashed into the Gulf of Mexico offshore Galveston, Texas. The Plaintiffs, Blome's wife, children, and his estate, sued, among others, Sea Link Helicopters, Inc. (Sea Link), which operated the helicopter, American Eurocopter Corporation...

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