ALMANZA v. UNITED AIRLINES, INC.

No. 16-11048.

851 F.3d 1060 (2017)

Julian ALMANZA, Individually, and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Alejandro Davison, Individually, and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Nicolas Arroyo, Individually, and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Aida Perez, Individually, and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Ana Escobar, Individually, and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Miguel Orozco, Individually, and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED AIRLINES, INC., a corporation, Delta Air Lines, Inc., American Airlines, Inc., a corporation, Aerovias de Mexico, S.A. de C.V., a corporation, Concesionaria Vuela Compania de Aviacion, S.A.P.I. de C.V., ABC Aerolineas, S.A. de C.V., a corporation, U.S. Airways, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

March 13, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew J.M. Prebeg , Stephen W. Abbott , Brent Taylor Caldwell , Christopher M. Faucett , Prebeg Faucett & Abbott, PLLC, Steven J. Kherkher , Sean H. McCarthy , Williams Kherkher Hart & Boundas, LLP, Houston, TX, Eric F. Citron , Goldstein & Russell, P.C., Bethesda, MD, Andrew Jack Kochanowski , Sarah Lindsay Rickard , Sommers Schwartz, PC, Southfield, MI, Lauren E.H. Meadows , Patrick T. O'Connor , Benjamin Mason Perkins , Oliver Maner, LLP, Savannah, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Sondra Hemeryck , Jacob Kahn , Ronald S. Safer , Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP, Chicago, IL, Mark David Johnson , Gilbert Harrell Sumerford & Martin, PC, Brunswick, GA, for United Airlines, Inc.

Frank M. Lowrey, IV , John E. Floyd , Manoj S. Varghese , Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP, Scott Grubman , Chilivis Cochran Larkins & Bever, LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Delta Air Lines, Inc.

James B. Durham , Hall Booth Smith, PC, Brunswick, GA, Sadik Harry Huseny , Daniel Murray Wall , Latham & Watkins, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for American Airlines, Inc.

J. Gordon Cooney, Jr. , Morgan Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Philadelphia, PA, Lucas T. Elliot , Alexandra Lyndra Farias , Morgan Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Houston, TX, Brian Ercole , Morgan Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Miami, FL, Richard K. Hines , Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Aerovias de Mexico, S.A. de C.V.

Brian H. Polovoy , Stuart J. Baskin , Joanna Shally , Shearman & Sterling, LLP, New York, NY, John E. Bumgartner , Brown Readdick Bumgartner Carter Strickland & Watkins, LLP, Brunswick, GA, for Concesionaria Vuela Compania de Aviacion, S.A.P.I. de C.V.

M. Roy Goldberg , Steptoe & Johnson, LLP, Washington, DC, James F. Moseley , Joni Alexis Poitier , Charles M. Trippe , Moseley Prichard Parrish Knight & Jones, Jacksonville, FL, for ABC Aerolineas, S.A. de C.V.

Daniel Murray Wall , Sadik Harry Huseny , Latham & Watkins, LLP, San Francisco, CA, James B. Durham , Hall Booth Smith, PC, Brunswick, GA, for U.S. Airways, Inc.

Before WILLIAM PRYOR and ROSENBAUM, Circuit Judges, and UNGARO, District Judge.


Some find travel taxing. Plaintiffs in this case are among them, but not for the usual reasons. Plaintiffs are Mexican nationals who, in flying with the Defendant airlines to and from the United States and Mexico, were charged, as part of their airfare, a tourism tax purportedly required under Mexican law, even though Defendants...

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