Legal Opinion

Miho v. Pan American World Airways, Inc.

United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation

Decided January 12, 1977No. 176Published

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION AND ORDER

Before JOHN MINOR WISDOM *, Chairman, and EDWARD WEINFELD, EDWIN A. ROBSON, WILLIAM H. BECKER, JOSEPH S. LORD, III*, STANLEY A. WEIGEL *, and ANDREW A. CAFFREY, Judges of the Panel. PER CURIAM.

On January 30, 1974, a Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) commercial aircraft crashed while on approach for landing at Pago Pago, American Samoa. The Panel previously transferred several actions arising from this disaster to the Central District of California and, with the consent of that court, assigned them to the Honorable Peirson M. Hall1 for coordinated or consolidated pretrial…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. In Re Air Crash Disaster at Florida Everglades on December 29, 1972United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1973
  2. In re Air Crash Disaster at Pago Pago, American Samoa, On January 30, 1974United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1974

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