Legal Opinion
Lyn-Lea Travel Corp. v. American Airlines, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 13, 2002No. 00-11174PublishedCited by 239 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:
Lyn-Lea Travel, Inc. appeals an adverse judgment on its claims against American Airlines for reducing the profitability of a travel agent booking contract. The district court determined that the Airline Deregulation Act (“ADA”), 49 U.S.C. § 41713(b)(1), preempted all of Lyn-Lea’s state-law claims as well as Lyn-Lea’s fraudulent inducement defense to a breach of contract counterclaim. On this major issue, we conclude that affirmative state law claims against American are preempted, but that Lyn-Lea’s defenses to its contract with American’s subsidiary are not. A…
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