Legal Opinion
In Re Disaster at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on August 16, 1987
District Court, E.D. Michigan
Decided September 29, 1989No. 742PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
JULIAN ABELE COOK, Jr., Chief Judge.
This Order is designed to resolve the plethora of pleadings that have raised choice of law issues in this multidistrict litigation. 1 In a case of this magnitude, in which one hundred fifty-seven claims have been filed in four federal judicial districts against two defendants that are incorporated in different states, the choice of law questions are numerous. Yet, all of them must be resolved as expeditiously as possible. The prospect of deciding choice of law questions in a multidistrict context prompted Judge Pierson M. Hall to state:
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2Cases cited62 opinions
- Erie Railroad v. TompkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Van Dusen v. BarrackSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Tarasoff v. Regents of University of CaliforniaCalifornia Supreme Court · 1976
- Barker v. Lull Engineering Co.California Supreme Court · 1978
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3Cited by36 opinions
- Trierweiler v. Croxton & Trench Holding Corp.Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1996
- In Re Air Crash Disaster.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1996
- McAuley v. General Motors Corp.Michigan Supreme Court · 1998
- Simon v. Philip Morris Inc.District Court, E.D. New York · 2000
- Daniel J. Trierweiler v. Croxton and Trench Holding Corporation, a Delaware Corporation Dublin Osaka Group, Inc., a Nevada Corporation R&b Financial Group, a Texas Corporation Columbus Equities International, Inc., Formerly Known as Parsons Securities, Inc., an Ohio Corporation Monetary Fund, Inc., a Texas Corporation Charles W. Trench Benjamin C. Croxton, an Individual Ralph Ben-Schoter Gary S. Okizaki, an Individual Margaret E. Kerr, an Individual Steven Kerr, an Individual Edward R. Lucero, an Individual Leo Copeland, an Individual Steven W. Kochensparger, an Individual Martin Howard Corsberg, an Individual U.S. Monetary Fund, Inc., a Texas Corporation Herbert Watkins, and Wenner, Silvestain & Company, a Colorado Partnership John D. Brasher, Jr., an Individual James G. Watt, an Individual Stephen L. Wenner Gary P. Saltzman Lawrence L. Greenberg Barry H. Silvestain, and MacHol Davis & Michael, P.C. James A. Kaplan, an Individual, Defendants-Third-Party-Plaintiffs-Appellees, and Robert Cooper, Thomas C. Clinton, Third-Party-Defendants. Daniel J. Trierweiler v. MacHol Davis & Michael, P.C., Formerly Known as MacHol & MacHol P.C., a Colorado Corporation James A. Kaplan, Wenner Silvestain & Company, a Colorado General Partnership John D. Brasher, Jr.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1996
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