Legal Opinion
Denise Lawson Seidman v. American Airlines, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 26, 1991No. 90-3161PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge:
This case is an appeal by American Airlines from a damage award entered after the plaintiff, Denise Lawson Seidman (“Seidman”), accepted a remittitur of a jury award in lieu of a new trial. Because we find that the district court did not remit the damage award sufficiently, we AFFIRM in part, REVERSE in part, and REMAND for proceedings consistent with this opinion.
BACKGROUND
On September 2, 1987, Seidman was a passenger aboard American Airlines flight 295 between Dallas-Ft. Worth and San Francisco. After two bomb threat notes were found on the airplane, 1 the aircraft was…
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