Legal Opinion
Slaven v. BP America, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 31, 1992No. 92-55155PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TANG, Circuit Judge:
In February 1990, the oil tanker American Trader spilled approximately 400,000 gallons of Alaskan crude oil into the Pacific Ocean, off Huntington Beach, California. The oil had been transferred to the American Trader from the Keystone Canyon, which had loaded the oil in Alaska. Various parties filed suit against the owners of the ship and oil and against the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Liability Fund (“the Fund”). The Fund moved to dismiss the claims against it, arguing that its governing statute made it liable only for spills by ships that had loaded their oil in Alaska, and…
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