Williams v. Midwest Airlines, Inc.

DECISION AND ORDER

ADELMAN, District Judge.

Plaintiffs Walter L. Williams Sr. and Eddie W. Levert commenced this action in state court alleging that agents of defendant Midwest Express Airlines (“Midwest”) 1 “intentionally and unlawfully removed” them from an airplane “without just cause.” (Comply 15.) Midwest removed the case to this court arguing that plaintiffs’ state law claims were completely preempted by the Airline Deregulation Act (“ADA”), thus giving rise to federal question jurisdiction, and that diversity jurisdiction also existed. In earlier decisions, I rejected defendant’s…