Legal Opinion
In Re Air Crash Disaster at Boston, Massachusetts on July 31, 1973
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided August 21, 1975No. 160PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
CAFFREY, Chief Judge.
These actions for wrongful death arise out of the crash of a Delta aircraft in Boston, Massachusetts on July 31, 1973. By order of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, cases were transferred to this Court from the district courts in New Hampshire, Vermont and Florida for consolidated and coordinated pretrial proceedings pursuant to 28 U.S. C.A. § 1407 (Supp.1975). Cases were also transferred to this Court from New York pursuant to sections 1404(a) and 1407 of the Judicial Code. Jurisdiction is predicated solely on diversity of citizenship. This…
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