Legal Opinion
Christensen v. Georgia-Pacific Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 1, 2002No. 00-35922PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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 of appellees’ acts. We reverse. Genuine issues of material fact exist as to breach of duty and proximate cause that must be…
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