Legal Opinion
In re Air Crash Disaster
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided December 3, 1990No. MDL No. 817; No. 89 C 8082PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
ELAINE E. BUCKLO, United States Magistrate Judge.
On July 19, 1989, a United Airlines DC-10 airplane manufactured by McDonnell Douglas Corporation crashed during an emergency landing at Sioux City, Iowa. As a result, 112 of the 296 people aboard the aircraft died. Beginning the day after the crash, many lawsuits have been filed against United, McDonnell Douglas and others. Forty-seven of those cases have been consolidated in the Northern District of Illinois for pretrial purposes by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407.…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Hickman v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Fisher v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- United States v. NoblesSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Mead Data Central, Inc. v. United States Department of the Air ForceCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1977
- United States v. Robert McPartlinCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1979
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3Cited by35 opinions
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