REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:
We decide here that longshoreworkers who are injured on board vessels while off-loading cargo stowed in an open and obviously hazardous manner by foreign stevedores may maintain negligence actions against the vessels. The district court reached a contrary conclusion. Accordingly, we reverse the grant of summary judgment to the vessel, and remand.
I. Background
On October 2, 1989, Michael Riggs sustained...
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