Legal Opinion
Klos v. Polskie Linie Lotnicze
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 8, 1997No. 379, Docket 97-7073PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge:
LOT Airlines appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Nickerson, J.) awarding plaintiffs $75,000 per decedent in their wrongful death action. LOT Airlines argues that the district court erred when it failed to dismiss plaintiffs’ complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. We agree and, therefore, reverse.
BACKGROUND
Polskie Linie Lotnicze, also known as LOT Polish Airlines (“LOT”), is the state-owned and operated official airline of the Republic of Poland. In the spring of 1987, Stanislaw Klos, Waclaw…
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