IN RE PAGO PAGO AIRCRASH OF JANUARY 30, 1974

MDL No. 176.

525 F.Supp. 1007 (1981)

In re PAGO PAGO AIRCRASH OF JANUARY 30, 1974.

United States District Court, C. D. California.

October 9, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Belli & Choulos, San Francisco, Cal., Paul F. Cronin, Honolulu, Hawaii, Ferguson, Ferguson & Newburn, La Jolla, Cal., Kreindler & Kreindler, New York City, Bernal L. Lewis, Woodside, Cal., Morgan, Wenzel & McNicholas, Los Angeles, Cal., Gerald C. Sterns, San Francisco, Cal., Butler, Jefferson & Dan, Los Angeles, Cal., Demanes & Bailey, Burlingame, Cal., Magana, Cathcart, McCarthy & Pierry, Los Angeles, Cal., Simons & Schlesinger, Hollywood, Fla., Hagenbaugh & Murphy, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiffs.

Tucker & Coddington, O'Melveny & Myers, Los Angeles, Cal., Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Aviation Unit, Tort Claims Section, Washington, D. C., Johnsen, Manfredi & Thorpe, Overton, Lyman & Prince, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM ORDER RE: PREJUDGMENT INTEREST

WM. MATTHEW BYRNE, Jr., District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

These consolidated wrongful death and personal injury cases arise out of the crash of a Pan American World Airways, Inc. ("Pan Am") Boeing 707 in Pago Pago, American Samoa, on January 30, 1974, in which ninety-seven persons died and the four survivors were injured. After four years of multi-district litigation proceedings, international discovery,...

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