Legal Opinion
In Re Air Crash Over the Mid-Atlantic on June 1, 2009
District Court, N.D. California
Decided October 4, 2010No. MDL 10-2144-CRBPublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER GRANTING FORUM NON CONVENIENS DISMISSAL
CHARLES R. BREYER, District Judge.
In one of the most tragic airline accidents in history, an Air France flight left Brazil for France and crashed over the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009. All 228 passengers and crew lost their lives. Many representatives of those passengers have filed lawsuits in the United States, and those suits were consolidated for pre-trial purposes in this Court. The Court has great sympathy for all the families who lost loved ones in this horrific accident and is interested in seeing those families fairly and timely…
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