Legal Opinion
Willie H. Harris, Ernestine Harris v. Polskie Linie Lotnicze, AKA Lot Polish Airlines, a Corporation, Defendant
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 22, 1987No. 86-2323PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SNEED, Circuit Judge:
Appellants challenge the amount of damages the district court awarded them as compensation for their son’s death in an airplane crash. The district court in fixing the compensation applied Polish law. Appellants argue that it ought to have applied California law. They further assert that the damages awarded were inadequate under either Polish or California law. We affirm.
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FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS BELOW
An Ilyushin 62 airplane owned and operated by the appellee, Polskie Linie Lotnicze (LOT), crashed near Warsaw, Poland on March 14,1980. All of the passengers died in the crash.…
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