Legal Opinion
Goranson v. Trans World Airlines
White Plains City Court
Decided September 12, 1983PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Paul H. Blaustein, J.
This small claim is based on TWA’s bumping of the plaintiff, Arlene Goranson, from her scheduled flight to London as part of a vacation tour for which she had contracted. The court holds TWA liable for bumping as a common-law breach of contract and awards compensatory damages in the amount of $1,500.
Despite the enormous number of passengers that have been bumped from flights, this court has found no other reported case in which actual compensatory damages have been awarded under simple common-law breach of contract. The court believes this to be a…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Nader v. Allegheny Airlines, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Wills v. Trans World Airlines, Inc.District Court, S.D. California · 1961
- Mortimer v. Delta Air LinesDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1969
- Levy v. Eastern AirlinesCivil Court of the City of New York · 1982
- Sabon Investments, Inc. v. Braniff Airways, Inc.District Court, D. Arizona · 1982
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