Legal Opinion
El Al Israel Airlines, Ltd. v. Tsui Yuan Tseng
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 12, 1999No. 97-475PublishedCited by 353 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ginsburg
Plaintiff-respondent Tsui Yuan Tseng was subjected to an intrusive security search at John P. Kennedy International Airport in New York before she boarded an El A1 Israel Airlines May 22, 1993 flight to Tel Aviv. Tseng seeks tort damages from El A1 for this occurrence. The episode-in-suit, both parties now submit, does not qualify as an “accident” within the meaning of the treaty popularly known as the Warsaw Convention, which governs air carrier liability for “all international transportation.”1 Tseng alleges psychic or psychosomatic injuries, but no “bodily injury,” as that term is used in…
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