Legal Opinion
In Re Air Crash Disaster Near Chicago, Ill., Etc.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided December 6, 1979No. 79 C 2272, 79 C 2310, 79 C 2311, 79 C 2440, 79 C 2444-79 C 2446, 79 C 2518, 79 C 2551-79 C 2554, 79 C 2573, 79 C 2730, 79 C 2770, 79 C 2822, 79 C 2823; MDL 391PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
ROBSON and WILL, District Judges.
The present cases arise from the crash of an American Airlines jet near O’Hare International Airport on May 25, 1979. These and other cases filed in the wake of the crash have been consolidated in this Court for pretrial proceedings. Plaintiffs, administrators or executors of the estates of persons who died in the crash or surviving relatives of crash victims, brought wrongful death actions against American Airlines, the air carrier;' McDonnell Douglas, the manufacturer of the aircraft; and other defendants. 1 Federal jurisdiction in this…
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- Laudenberger v. Port Auth. of AlleghenySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1981
- Simmons, Inc., a Corporation v. Pinkerton's, Inc., a Corporation and National Surety Corporation, a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1985
- Bond v. City of HuntingtonWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1981
- Moffett v. Gene B. Glick Co., Inc.District Court, N.D. Indiana · 1985
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