Bruce W. Christensen v. Georgia-Pacific Corporation

279 F.3d 807 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. No. 00-35922. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted November 9, 2001. Filed February 1, 2002. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED 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. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon; Thomas M. Coffin, Magistrate Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-99-06123-TMC. Before: HUG, T.G. NELSON, and GOULD, Circuit Judges. T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judge. 1 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…