Legal Opinion
In Re Air Crash Disaster Near Silver Plume, Colorado
United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Decided December 5, 1972No. 112PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
Before ALFRED P. MURRAH * , Chairman, and JOHN MINOR WISDOM, EDWARD WEINFELD, EDWIN A. ROBSON, WILLIAM H. BECKER, JOSEPH S. LORD, III, and STANLEY A. WEIGEL, Judges of the Panel. PER CURIAM.
On October 2, 1970, a chartered aircraft transporting the Wichita State University football team and associated personnel crashed in the Rocky Mountains near Silver Plume, Colorado. Of the forty persons aboard, thirty-two succumbed to injuries received in the crash. The Panel ordered the parties to actions pending in federal court to show cause why this litigation should not be transferred…
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