Legal Opinion
Rollins Ex Rel. Estate of Rollins v. Board of Governors for Higher Education
District Court, D. Rhode Island
Decided April 10, 1991No. Civ. A. 88-0482PPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
PETTINE, Senior District Judge.
In the above captioned case, the plaintiffs’ decedent was electrocuted while working on the ship-to-shore power cable connection of the vessel, Endeavor. Defendants have filed two motions in limine. In the first, they seek to exclude evidence of actual changes in procedures or hardware made after the August 11, 1986 incident. In the second, they move to exclude all reference to an investigative report prepared by a Board of Inquiry after August 11, 1986. By their own admission, they do not seek to exclude “any evidence of their employees’ prior…
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