Legal Opinion
Air Line Pilots Ass'n v. Quesada
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 21, 1960No. 337, Docket 26174PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LUMBARD, Chief Judge.
On December 1, 1959 the defendant, Elwood R. Quesada, Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency, promulgated a regulation which provides:
“No individual who has reached his 60th birthday shall be utilized or serve as a pilot on any aircraft while engaged in air carrier operations.”1
This regulation took effect on March 15, 1960.
The plaintiffs, thirty-five individual pilots, their collective bargaining representative, Air Line Pilots Association, and its president, brought the suit in January 1960 for a declaratory judgment that the regulation was null and void and for an…
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