Abdullah v. American Airlines, Inc.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ROTH, Circuit Judge:

After a jury had awarded plaintiffs-appellants Khaled Abdullah, Audrey James, Eardley James, and Velma George damages for injuries sustained during an American Airlines flight, the District Court of the Virgin Islands, Division of Saint Croix, ordered a new trial. The court’s action was based on its conclusion that it had improperly relied upon territorial common law to establish the standards of care that were used by the jury to determine that negligence on the part of American Airlines’ employees had caused appellants’ injuries. Abdullah v. American…