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SHERRILL v. BRINKERHOFF MARITIME DRILLING

Nos. C-82-0836-WWS, C-82-2565-WWS, C-82-2566-WWS, C-82-2568-WWS, C-82-2569-WWS, C-83-0603-WWS to C-83-0607-WWS and C-83-1022-WWS.

615 F.Supp. 1021 (1985)

Cora E. SHERRILL, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Max O. Sherrill, deceased, Plaintiff, v. BRINKERHOFF MARITIME DRILLING, a corporation, et al., Defendants. Timothy P. JONES, Plaintiff, v. BRINKERHOFF MARITIME DRILLING, a corporation, et al., Defendants. David Alfred LOWRY, Plaintiff, v. BRINKERHOFF MARITIME DRILLING, a corporation, et al., Defendants. David S. SCHWARTZ, as Administratrix of the Estate of James C. Owen, Plaintiff, v. BRINKERHOFF MARITIME DRILLING, a corporation, et al., Defendants. Murray Robert COLE, Plaintiff, v. BRINKERHOFF MARITIME DRILLING, a corporation, et al., Defendants. Shereen Ramona ZIPFEL, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Ian Charles Zipfel, deceased, Plaintiff, v. HALLIBURTON CO., et al., Defendants. Ten Fong CRAIG, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of William Henry Craig, deceased, Plaintiff, v. ATLANTIC RICHFIELD CO., et al., Defendants. CHAN LUCK CHEE, Plaintiff, v. McCLELLAND ENGINEERS, INC., et al., Defendants. Patrick Paul GRUNKE, Plaintiff, v. ATLANTIC RICHFIELD CO., et al., Defendants. Vyner Gerard ALBUQUERQUE, Plaintiff, v. OCEANEERING INTERNATIONAL, INC., et al., Defendants. Michael Wayne CRAIG, Plaintiff, v. BRINKERHOFF MARITIME DRILLING, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

August 9, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Waner, Waner, Beaman & Boyer, Santa Rosa, Cal., Frank M. Staggs, Jr., O'Quinn & Hagens, Houston, Tex., Lyle C. Cavin, Jr., San Francisco, Cal., Benton Musslewhite, Harold Eisenmann, Schechter, Eisenmann & Solar, John P. Forney, Eastman, Watson, Dale & Forney, Houston, Tex., Joel F. Citron, Santa Monica, Cal., Robert R. Catalano, Catalano & Gates, San Jose, Cal., for plaintiffs.

Ernest N. Reddick, Derby, Cook, Quinby & Tweedt, Graydon S. Staring, Lillick, McHose & Charles, Harold A. Stone, Gudmundson, Siggins & Stone, Vernon L. Goodin, Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon, Robert J. Finan, Finan, White & Morrison, San Francisco, Cal., James M. Derr, Belcher, Henzie, Biegenzahn & Walker, Los Angeles, Cal., William H. Westover, Morris Davidovitz, Fisher & Hurst, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OF OPINION AND ORDER

SCHWARZER, District Judge.

Before the Court are eleven actions brought by or on behalf of seamen who were killed or injured in an air crash in Indonesia. These actions were related pursuant to Local Rule 205-2 for assignment to a single judge; they have, however, not been consolidated. Pursuant to the court's assignment plan they were later reassigned from that judge to the undersigned.

Prior to the reassignment, defendants...

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