Legal Opinion
Daniel v. Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd.
District Court, N.D. California
Decided February 23, 1998No. C-97-3659 WHOPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
ORRICK, District Judge.
In this purported class action against defendant Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited (“Virgin”) for damages caused by delay in international air travel, Virgin now moves for judgment on the pleadings or, in the alternative, to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a claim. For the reasons set forth hereinafter, the Court grants Virgin’s motion in part and denies it in part.
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The following statement of facts is summarized from the complaint. No class has yet been certified.
Plaintiffs Ben Daniel, Rajesh K. Gupta, and Constance 0. Schmidt were economy…
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