Legal Opinion
Alan C. Sugarman v. Aeromexico, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided June 30, 1980No. 79-2085PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOUIS H. POLLAK, District Judge.
The question posed by this appeal is whether Aeromexico, Inc. — the national airline of Mexico, and a common carrier of passengers between Mexico and the United States — is shielded by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, 28 U.S.C. §§ 1602 et seq., from responding in a court in the United States to claims of the sort here pressed against Aeromexico by a United States citizen. The essence of Alan Sugarman’s claim against Aeromexico is that, in the last twenty-four hours of a trip to Mexico and return, he suffered manifold hardships — injurious to his…
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