Legal Opinion
Sikkelee v. AVCO Corp.
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Decided August 3, 2017No. 4:07-CV-00886PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Matthew W. Brann, United States District Judge
Á weightless innocence so often attends our daydreams of flight. As the Américan aviator John Gillespie Magee, Jr., 'loftily described it, pilots “dance[] the skies on laughter-silvered wings,” soaring “high in the sunlit silence.”1 Sadly, it wouid seem that Magee’s “high untrespassed sanctity of space” must belong to a universe far away from the dark origins and convoluted history of this case.
Initiated in 2007, two.,years after David Sikkelee, Jr., died in a fiery plane crash,, the instant litigation has charted an eventful…
2Cases cited87 opinions
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- Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, Administratrix of the Estate of CatrettSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Skidmore v. Swift & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Ring v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 2002
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Jill Sikkelee v. Precision Airmotive CorpCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2018