Legal Opinion
In re Air Crash Disaster Near Roselawn, Indiana On October 31, 1994
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 19, 1996No. 96-2130PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
Sixty-eight people were killed on October 31, 1994, when American Eagle Flight 4184 from Indianapolis to Chicago developed severe icing problems and crashed near Rose-lawn, Indiana. Numerous lawsuits arose out of the crash. Thirty-two of those cases were filed in, transferred to, or removed to the Northern District of Illinois. This appeal presents the question whether the cases will proceed in federal court, as the defendants desire, or in state court, the choice of the plaintiffs.
The district court ruled that defendant Avions de Transport Regional, G.I.E. (“ATR”), a…
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