Legal Opinion
Albert Kornberg and Laura Kornberg v. Carnival Cruise Lines, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 18, 1984No. 83-5221PublishedCited by 272 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RONEY, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs, Albert and Laura Kornberg, filed a class action suit against Carnival, Cruise Lines seeking damages allegedly caused by the failure of the sanitary system of the TSS Tropicale during a one-week cruise in the Caribbean. The district court denied class action certification on the grounds that the class was not sufficiently numerous and that plaintiffs were not typical of the class. On Carnival’s motion for summary judgment, the court dismissed plaintiffs’ suit as barred by certain disclaimers in their contract of passage. We reverse the summary judgment for a…
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