Legal Opinion
King v. American Airlines, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 22, 2002No. Docket No. 01-7611PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs-appellants George and Judy King appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Hurd, J.), dismissing their discrimination claim as untimely. The Kings, an African American couple possessing confirmed tickets for a flight from Miami to the Grand Bahamas, alleged that defendants bumped them from an overbooked flight because of their race. The defendants moved pursuant to Fed. R.Civ.P. 12(c) for judgment on the pleadings, asserting that the Kngs’ claim fell within the scope of the Convention for the…
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