Legal Opinion

Travel Network, Ltd. v. United Air Lines, Inc.

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided October 4, 2002No. 02-1639PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

RILEY, Circuit Judge.

This class action lawsuit was filed against several major airlines by travel agencies, individual travel agents, and the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA). The case settled in 1996. After the class members were paid under the settlement agreement, some settlement funds remained unclaimed and undistributed. The district court initially ordered a cy pres distribution of these funds to several organizations, including educational and charitable institutions in the vicinity of Minneapolis, Minnesota. We reversed that decision on appeal. In re Airline Ticket Comm’n…

2Cases cited4 opinions

Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
Democratic Central Committee of the District of Columbia v. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission, D.C. Transit System, Inc., IntervenorCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1996
In Re: Airline Ticket Commission Antitrust Litigation. Travel Network, Ltd.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2001
Powell v. Georgia-Pacific Corp.District Court, W.D. Arkansas · 1994

3Cited by1 opinion

In Re: Airline Ticket Commission Antitrust Litigation Travel Network, Ltd., a New Jersey Corporation, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, American Society of Travel Agents, National Association for Public Interest Law, Intervenor on Appeal v. United Air Lines, Inc. American Airlines, Inc. Continental Airlines, Inc. Delta Air Lines, Inc. Northwest Airlines, Inc. Usairways, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2002