IN RE PARIS AIR CRASH OF MARCH 3, 1974

MDL No. 172.

410 F.Supp. 326 (1976)

In re PARIS AIR CRASH OF MARCH 3, 1974.

United States District Court, C. D. California.

February 23, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wm. Marshall Morgan, Los Angeles, Cal., for Liaison & Coordinating Counsel.

Lee S. Kreindler, New York City, Gerald C. Sterns, San Francisco, Cal., for Discovery Committee.

Mark P. Robinson, Los Angeles, Cal., for Crew Discovery Committee.

F. Lee Bailey, Boston, Mass., and Aaron J. Broder by Seymour Madow, New York City, Butler, Jefferson & Fry by James G. Butler, James M. Jefferson, Robert P. Fry, Michael A. K. Dan, Moses Lebovits, Chase, Rotchford, Drukker & Bogust by Henry J. Bogust, Los Angeles, Cal., Goldfarb & Singer, Washington, D. C., Green, Royce & Seaman by Irving H. Green, Hodge & Hodges by John R. Skoog, Horgan & Robinson by Mark P. Robinson, Los Angeles, Cal., Kreindler & Kreindler by Lee S. Kreindler, Marc S. Moller, Melvin I. Friedman, New York City, Krutch, Lindell, Donnelly, Dempcy, Lageschulte & Judkins, P. S. by Richard F. Krutch, Vernon T. Judkins, Seattle, Wash., Lewis, Wilson, Cowles, Lewis & Jones, Ltd. by Richard H. Jones, Arlington, Va., McGrail & Nordlund by Joseph V. McGrail, Alexandria, Va., Magana & Cathcart by Daniel C. Cathcart, James J. McCarthy, Morgan, Wenzel & McNicholas by Wm. Marshall Morgan, David Noble, Los Angeles, Cal., Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison by Joseph S. Iseman, John J. O'Neil, New York City, Shahin & Wawro by James Wawro, Los Angeles, Cal., Sherman & Schwartz, Ins. by Arthur Sherman, Beverly Hills, Cal., Speiser & Krause by Stuart M. Speiser, Charles F. Krause, New York City, Speiser, Krause & Madole by Donald W. Madole, A. George Glasco, Juanita M. Madole, Washington, D. C., Walkup, Downing & Sterns by Gerald C. Sterns, Thomas G. Smith, San Francisco, Cal., Walsh & Levine by Laurence W. Levine, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher by Robert Forgnone, Kirtland & Packard by Robert C. Packard, Jacques Soiret, Los Angeles, Cal., Mendes & Mount by James M. Fitz-Simons, Joseph Asselta, New York City, Tuttle & Taylor by William A. Norris, Joseph A. Austin, Charles Rosenberg, Ronald C. Peterson, Los Angeles, Cal., for McDonnell Douglas.

Overton, Lyman & Prince by Fred S. Lack, Brenton F. Goodrich, Gregory A. Long, Ernest E. Johnson, Los Angeles, Cal., for General Dynamics.

Adams, Duque & Hazeltine by Thomas F. Call, Los Angeles, Cal., Condon & Forsyth by George N. Tompkins, Jr., Desmond T. Barry, Jr., Frank A. Silane, New York City, Latham & Watkins by Philip F. Belleville, A. Victor Antola, Thomas L. Harnsberger, Los Angeles, Cal., Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy by Edward J. Reilly, Russell E. Brooks, New York City, Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge by Phillip D. Bostwick, Jay H. Bernstein, Washington, D. C., for Turkish Airlines, Inc.

William D. Keller, U. S. Atty. by James R. Dooley, Asst. U. S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., George E. Farrell, John Laughlin, Herbert L. Lyons, Sp. Attys., Tort Claims Section, Aviation Unit, Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Neil Eisner, Federal Aviation Administration, Washington, D. C., for the United States.


MEMORANDUM ORDER ON PUNITIVE DAMAGES

PEIRSON M. HALL, Senior District Judge.

The cases filed for the claimants in about half of the 338 deaths arising out of the Paris air crash and pending in this court have refused to waive punitive damages. Statutory law, section 3294 of the California Civil Code; and the case law, Pease v. Beech Aircraft Corp., 38 Cal.App.3d 450...

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