Legal Opinion
Julian Almanza v. United Airlines, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided March 13, 2017No. 16-11048PublishedCited by 121 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROSENBAUM, Circuit Judge:
Some find travel taxing. Plaintiffs in this case are among them, but not for the usual reasons. Plaintiffs are Mexican nationals who, in flying with the Defendant airlines to and from the United States and Mexico, were charged, as part of their airfare, a tourism tax purportedly required under Mexican law, even though Defendants knew that, under Mexican law, Plaintiffs were actually exempt from the tax. Defendants kept those improperly collected “taxes” for themselves instead of remitting them to Mexico (to which they were not owed) or back to Plaintiffs (who…
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