Legal Opinion
Eid v. Alaska Airlines, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 30, 2010No. 06-16457PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Chief Judge KOZINSKI; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge OTERO.
*862OPINION
KOZINSKI, Chief Judge:
We consider when airlines may be held liable to passengers on international flights whom they force to disembark before the voyage is completed.
Facts
These are the facts as plaintiffs allege them: On September 29, 2003, a group of Egyptian businessmen, their wives and a Brazilian fiancée, boarded Alaska Airlines Flight 694 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Their journey had started a few days earlier in Cairo and they were headed for a convention on energy-related products and…
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