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CHRISTENSEN v. GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORP.

No. 00-35922.

279 F.3d 807 (2002)

Bruce W. CHRISTENSEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION, a Georgia corporation; Southern Route Maritime, S.A., a foreign corporation; Anglia Maritime, S.A., a foreign corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed February 1, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maureen Leonard, Portland, OR, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Jay W. Beattie, Lindsay, Hart, Neil & Weigler, LLP, Craig Murphy, Wood Tatum Saunders & Murphy, and Daniel F. Knox, Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, Portland, OR, for the defendants-appellees.

Before: HUG, T.G. NELSON, and GOULD, Circuit Judges.

T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judge.

Bruce W. Christensen appeals the district court's order granting Appellees' summary judgment motions. Christensen is a longshoreman who was injured while helping to retie a ship that had broken free from the dock. Christensen filed negligence claims against the ship, a second ship that had been tied to the same cleat on the dock, and the dock owner. The district court held that, as a matter of law, the injury was not a foreseeable result...

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