Vekris v. Peoples Express Airlines, Inc.

WALKER, District Judge:

This case involves the applicability of the Warsaw Convention’s limitation on airline liability for lost baggage (the “Convention”), where defendant Peoples Express Airlines, Inc. (“Peoples”) neglected to follow the strict provisions of Article 4 of the Convention, concerning proper preparation of baggage checks. 1 Plaintiff Charalam-bos Vekris seeks $45,000 damages for the loss of a cardboard tube containing his original artwork which he checked as baggage before boarding a Peoples international flight at Newark, New Jersey. Peoples counters that its liability is…