Legal Opinion
Taj Mahal Travel, Inc. v. Delta Airlines Inc. Air Canada Airlines Reporting Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided December 30, 1998No. 97-5652PublishedCited by 117 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
WEIS, Circuit Judge.
In this appeal, we determine that the defendant airline’s form letter advising a number of passengers that their tickets are considered to be stolen may be defamatory to the plaintiff travel agency that sold the tickets. We also conclude that the preemption provision of the Airline Deregulation Act does not apply to this state tort claim. Accordingly, we will reverse the District Court’s dismissal of the plaintiffs defamation claims.
Taj Mahal Travel, Inc. was a travel agency in Princeton, New Jersey, specializing in furnishing airline tickets to persons…
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