Legal Opinion
In Re Paris Air Crash of March 3, 1974
District Court, C.D. California
Decided August 1, 1975No. MDL 172PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF OPINION IN RE CHOICE OF LAW ON DAMAGES
PEIRSON M. HALL, Senior District Judge.
Before getting to the points involved in the several motions, a general statement concerning this Aegaéonic 1 case is in order.
On March 3, 1974, shortly after takeoff from Paris, France, a Douglas DC-10 passenger airplane owned and operated by Turkish Air Lines 2 crashed in France, destroying the plane and killing all human occupants (346) aboard, 13 of whom were crew. 3 The number of dependents and claims are unknown, but unofficial estimates have placed that number at about 1,000.
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2Cases cited42 opinions
- Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of NarcoticsSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Marbury v. MadisonSupreme Court of the United States · 1803
- Bell v. HoodSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Cort v. AshSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
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3Cited by56 opinions
- Mohammad Sami v. United States of AmericaCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1979
- Martin John Beattie v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1984
- In Re Mexico City Aircrash of October 31, 1979 Consolidated Proceedings. Gary Steve Haley, as Heir and of Deceased Theresa Yoriko Sugano Haley, Gary Steven Haley, Special Administrator for the Estate of Theresa Yoriko Sugano Haley v. Western Airlines, Inc., Blanca Estela Paz Tovar, Heir and of Deceased Regina Patricia Tovar Blanca Estela Paz Tovar, Special Administrator for the Estate of Regina Patricia Tovar, Anthony John Dzida, as Heir and of Deceased Vikki Dzida, Anthony John Dzida, Special Administrator for the Estate of Vikki Dzida, Plaintiff v. Western Airlines, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, McDonnell Douglas Company, Inc., a Maryland Corporation Estate of Charles Gilbert Sperry-Rand, Inc., Sunstrand Data Control, Inc., a Foreign Corporation Bendix Corporation, Flight Systems Division, a Delaware Corporation Rockwell International, Inc. Collins Air Transport Division, a Foreign Corporation Thompson, C.F.S., a Foreign CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1983
- Reed v. WiserCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1977
- In Re Pyramid Co. of BurlingtonSupreme Court of Vermont · 1982
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