Legal Opinion
In re Air Crash Disaster Near Dayton
United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Decided March 23, 1970No. 38PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
2Per curiam
This multidistrict litigation presently encompasses thirteen actions pending in three federal district courts.1 They all result from a mid-air collision between a small private plane and a Trans World Airlines jetliner. All twenty-six persons aboard the two planes were killed.
On February 9, 1970 an order was directed to the parties to show cause why the actions listed on Schedule A should not be transferred to a single district for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings under 28 U.S.C. § 1407. Some of the parties declined to respond to the show cause order or to…
3Cited by4 opinions
- George H. Humphreys, Administrator of the Estate of John S. Humphreys, Deceased, and George H. Humphreys, Individually v. Herman TannCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1973
- In Re Multidistrict Civil Actions Involving Air Crash Disaster Near Dayton, Ohio, on March 9, 1967United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1975
- In Re Air Crash Disaster at John F. Kennedy International AirportDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1978
- In Re Master Key Antitrust LitigationUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1971