Bower v. Egyptair Airlines Co.

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal stems from an international parental kidnapping perpetrated by defendant Mirvat El-Nady. Plaintiff-appellant in this case, Colin Bower, is El-Nady’s former husband. In August 2009, El-Nady acted in violation of a court order when she drove the former couple’s two minor children to New York City, where they boarded an EgyptAir Airlines Company (“EgyptAir”) flight to Cairo, Egypt. This prompted Bower, on his own behalf and on behalf of his two minor children, to initiate this lawsuit against El-Nady and EgyptAir. Bower claims that the airline interfered with…