Legal Opinion
Zicherman Ex Rel. Estate of Kole v. Korean Air Lines Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 16, 1996No. 94-1361PublishedCited by 234 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scalia
This action presents the question whether, in a suit brought under Article 17 of the Warsaw Convention governing international air transportation, Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Transportation by Air, Oct. 12,1929,49 Stat. 3000, T. S. No. 876 (1934) (reprinted in note following 49 U. S. C. App. § 1502 (1988 ed.)), a plaintiff may recover damages for loss of society resulting from the death of a relative in a plane crash on the high seas.
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On September 1, 1983, Korean Air Lines Flight KE007, en route from Anchorage, Alaska, to Seoul, South Korea,…
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