Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 11 Oct 2012
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a district court’s determination that the statute of repose under the General Aviation Revitalization Act began to run when an allegedly defective part, “along with the aircraft in which it was installed originally, was delivered to its first purchaser.”
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 17 Feb 2011
While upholding a lower court's dismissal, on inconvenient forum grounds, of a number of complaints arising out of an airline disaster that killed more than 200 people in Brazil, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has determined that the court erred in dismissing, on its own motion, the complaint filed by a Brazilian mother who had not yet served a summons and her complaint on the......
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 20 Jan 2011
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has determined that an airline manufacturer prematurely attempted to remove to federal court state-court actions arising out of a 2009 crash that occurred in the Netherlands.