Legal Opinion
Buonocore v. Trans World Airlines, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 27, 1990No. 961, Docket 89-9101PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:
Appellants Cecile Buonocore and John Buonocore, Jr. appeal from a summary judgment in favor of TWA entered November 6, 1989 in the Southern District of New York, Robert P. Patterson, Jr., District Judge, dismissing the complaint. The court held that Article 17 of the Warsaw Convention, to which the United States is a signatory, did not render TWA liable for the death of John Buonocore, III (“Buono-core”), appellants’ son.
The sole issue on appeal is whether the court erred in failing to construe Article 17 to impose liability on TWA under the circumstances leading to…
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