Legal Opinion
Trens v. University of Hawaii
District Court, D. Hawaii
Decided February 10, 1983No. Civ. Nos. 79-0324A, 79-0324, 79-0353, 79-0583, 79-0631, 80-0053, 80-0054 and 80-0641PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
SAMUEL P. KING, Chief Judge.
BACKGROUND
On December 9, 1978, the M/V HOLO-HOLO, a 90-foot Alaskan power scow converted to other uses, sailed from Honolulu, Hawaii, on the second of six planned voyages to an ocean thermal energy conversion (“OTEC”) station located seventeen nautical miles west of Kawaihae on the Island of Hawaii. The vessel had been chartered by the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii (“RCUH”) pursuant to a subcontract with the University of Hawaii (“UH”), which was in turn operating under a subcontract with defendant The Regents of the University of California…
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