Beatrice Antonette Tramontana v. S. A. Empresa De Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense, a Brazilian Corporation, T/a Varig Airlines

McGOWAN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents an international variant of a recurring domestic conflict of laws problem, namely, the applicability in the forum (the District of Columbia) of a monetary damage limitation contained in the wrongful death statute of the place of injury (Brazil). We have, thus, no concern with the Full Faith *469and Credit Clause of the Constitution, nor is it claimed that any international engagement of the United States compels recognition of the foreign law. On the record before us, however, we do not find that the District Court erred in according such recognition;…