Legal Opinion
Robles v. Lot Polish Airlines
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 8, 1983No. 729, Docket 82-7616PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OAKES, Circuit Judge:
The Warsaw Convention1 limits the liability of air carriers for the injury or death *86of international passengers. The Convention was modified in certain respects by the Montreal Agreement, which specifies that passengers must be advised of the carrier’s liability limitations in 10-point type. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Charles P. Sifton, Judge, held that the use of 8.5-point rather than 10-point type to inform passengers of liability limitations \tripped the appellant air carrier in this case of the protection of such limitations…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Touche Ross & Co. v. RedingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Edmund J. Smith v. Canadian Pacific Airways, Ltd.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1971
- John Lisi, Etc. v. Alitalia-Linee Aeree Italiane, S.P.A.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1966
- Mertens v. Flying Tiger Line, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1965
- Husserl v. Swiss Air Transport Company, Ltd.District Court, S.D. New York · 1972
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3Cited by32 opinions
- In Re Air Crash Disaster Near New Orleans, Louisiana on July 9, 1982. Luis Alberto Trivelloni-Lorenzi, and Susanna Electra Trivelloni-Lorenzi v. Pan American World Airways, Inc., Ernesto Serio Pampin Lopez, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of His Deceased Mother Sara E. Lopez De Pampin v. Pan American Airways, Inc., and United States of AmericaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1987
- In Re KOREAN AIR LINES DISASTER OF SEPTEMBER 1, 1983. Appeal of Plaintiffs Steering CommitteeCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1987
- Chan v. Korean Air Lines, Ltd.Supreme Court of the United States · 1989
- In Re Air Disaster at Lockerbie, Scotland on December 21, 1988. Denice H. Rein v. Pan American World Airways Incorporated, in Re Hijacking of Pan American World Airways, Inc. Aircraft at Karachi International Airport, Pakistan on September 5, 1986. Dilip Joshi, Nadya Hussain, Tahra Lodhi, Dilip Parikh, Faraidoon Oshtory v. Pan American World Airways, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1991
- Willie H. Harris, Ernestine Harris v. Polskie Linie Lotnicze, AKA Lot Polish Airlines, a Corporation, DefendantCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1987
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