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CHAN v. SOCIETY EXPEDITIONS, INC.

Nos. 96-35210, 96-35372.

123 F.3d 1287 (1997)

Benny CHAN and; Victoria Chan, as Guardian Ad Litem of Samantha Chan, Plaintiffs-Appellees, and Adventurer Cruises, Inc., a Liberian corporation, Claimant, v. SOCIETY EXPEDITIONS, INC., a Washington Corporation, Discoverer Reederei, GmbH, a West German corporation, in personam, Defendants-Appellants. Benny CHAN and Victoria Chan, individually, and as husband and wife, Victoria Chan, as Guardian Ad litem for Samantha Chan, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SOCIETY EXPEDITIONS, INC., a Washington Corporation, et al., Defendants, and World Discoverer, Claimant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided August 29, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas F. Paul, Le Gross, Buchanan and Paul, Seattle, WA, for defendants-appellants/cross-appellees.

Donovan R. Flora, Sullivan and Golden, Seattle, WA, for plaintiffs-appellees/cross-appellants.

Before: GOODWIN, SCHROEDER, and NORRIS, Circuit Judges.

GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:

Defendants Society Expeditions ("Society") and Discoverer Reederei GmbH ("Discoverer") appeal the district court's ruling that they are liable for injuries Plaintiffs Benny and Samantha Chan sustained when an inflatable raft on which they were ferried from a cruise ship to shore capsized in the South Pacific. The Chans cross-appeal the district court's dismissal of their action in rem against the cruise ship WORLD DISCOVERER and the court's...

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