Legal Opinion
Air France v. Saks
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 4, 1985No. 83-1785PublishedCited by 426 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice O’Connor
Article 17 of the Warsaw Convention 1 makes air carriers liable for injuries sustained by a passenger “if the accident which caused the damage so sustained took place on board the aircraft or in the course of any of the operations of embarking or disembarking.” We granted certiorari, 469 U. S. 815 (1984), to resolve a conflict among the Courts of Appeals as to the proper definition of the word “accident” as used in this international air carriage treaty.
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On November 16, 1980, respondent Valerie Saks boarded an Air France jetliner in Paris for a 12-hour flight to Los Angeles. The flight went…
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