Legal Opinion
Simon v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 20, 2003No. 02-2945PPublishedCited by 106 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
BECKER, Circuit Judge.
The threshold question presented by this interlocutory appeal, 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b), is whether Indiana’s or Pennsylvania’s choice-of-law rules govern a suit against the United States by the estates of passengers killed in the crash of a small private aircraft. Two of the decedents lived in Pennsylvania, another worked in Pennsylvania, the plane was hangared in Pennsylvania, and the corporation that owned it was incorporated in Pennsylvania. The plane crash, which occurred during a landing at a Kentucky airport in inclement weather, resulted from: (1)…
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3Cited by106 opinions
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