Legal Opinion
Stratis v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 30, 1982No. Nos. 554, 555 and 705, Dockets 81-6149, 81-6167 and 81-6187PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OAKES, Circuit Judge:
This appeal, chock-full of incongruities and perplexities, involves the June 24, 1975, crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 on its approach to John F. Kennedy Airport, a resulting $6.5 million verdict against Eastern and the United States, an apportionment of 60% of the damages against one of the impleaded defendants, a question of the application of the Warsaw Convention and Montreal Agreement, and a series of questions pertaining to the verdict and the judgments entered thereon. We find that the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Henry…
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