Legal Opinion
In Re Air Crash Disaster Near Chicago, Illinois on May 25, 1979. Appeals of American Airlines, Inc. And McDonnell Douglas Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 31, 1983No. 81-3083, 81-3084PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SWYGERT, Senior Circuit Judge.
This diversity case involves the wrongful death actions filed by the survivors of certain victims of the crash near Chicago on May 25,1979, of a DC-10 aircraft manufactured by defendant McDonnell Douglas Corporation and owned by defendant American Airlines. Many of these actions, either filed in or removed to federal court, were consolidated for pretrial proceedings in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois by an order of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. In re Air Crash Disaster, 476 F.Supp. 445, 449…
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