Legal Opinion
In Re Air Crash Disaster at Huntington, West Virginia
United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Decided May 22, 1972No. 94PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
2Per curiam
In the fall of 1970 a Southern Airways jet, chartered by Marshall University’s football team, crashed near Huntington, West Virginia, fatally injuring all seventy passengers and five crew members. There are now ten actions 1 pending in six different districts asserting claims arising from the crash. Four of the actions are pending in the Southern District of New York, two in the District of New Jersey, and one each in the Eastern District of New York, District of Columbia, Eastern District of Kentucky and Southern District of West Virginia,
On December 16, 1971, the Panel…
3Cases cited7 opinions
- Pfizer, Inc., Defendants-Petitioners v. Honorable Miles W. Lord, United States District Judge, and State of Oregon, Plaintiffs-RespondentsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1971
- In Re Coordinated Pretrial Proceedings in Antibiotic Antitrust ActionsDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1971
- Jack Winter, Inc. v. Koratron CompanyDistrict Court, N.D. California · 1971
- In Re Mid-Air Collision Near Fairland, IndianaUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1970
- In Re Multidistrict Patent & Antitrust Litigation Involving KoratronUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1969
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4Cited by9 opinions
- In Re American Continental Corporation/lincoln Savings & Loan Securities Litigation. Lexecon Inc. Daniel R. Fischel v. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, a Partnership Patrick Coughlin William S. Lerach Kevin P. Roddy Leonard B. Simon Melvyn I. Weiss Patricia Hynes Michael C. Spencer Stephen R. Steinberg, in Re American Continental Corporation/lincoln Savings & Loan Securities Litigation. Lexecon Inc. Daniel R. Fischel v. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, a Partnership Patrick Coughlin William S. Lerach Kevin P. Roddy Leonard B. Simon Melvyn I. Weiss Patricia Hynes Michael C. Spencer Stephen R. Steinberg, Cotchett, Illston & Pitre Joseph Cotchett Susan Illston, in Re American Continental Corporation/lincoln Savings & Loan Securities Litigation. Lexecon Inc. Daniel R. Fischel v. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, a Partnership Patrick Coughlin William S. Lerach Kevin P. Roddy Leonard B. Simon Melvyn I. Weiss Patricia Hynes Michael C. Spencer Stephen R. SteinbergCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1996
- In Re Air Crash Disaster Near Chicago, Etc.United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1979
- In Re Air Crash Disaster at Fla. Everglades, Dec. 29, 1972United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1973
- In Re Air Crash Disaster Near Upperville, VirginiaUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1975
- In re Delta Airlines Crash at Boston, Massachusetts, on July 31, 1973United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1974
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