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IN RE AIR CRASH DISASTER NEAR CHICAGO, ILL., ETC.

No. MDL 391.

480 F.Supp. 1280 (1979)

In re AIR CRASH DISASTER NEAR CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ON MAY 25, 1979. This Document Relates To: 79 C 2272, 79 C 2310, 79 C 2311, 79 C 2440, 79 C 2444-79 C 2446, 79 C 2518, 79 C 2551-79 C 2554, 79 C 2573, 79 C 2730, 79 C 2770, 79 C 2822, 79 C 2823.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

December 6, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Kennelly, Chicago, Ill., Speiser & Krause, New York City, Speiser, Krause & Madole, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

Thomas D. Allen, Robert E. Haley and Michael Grant of Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, Chicago, Ill., for defendant American Airlines, Inc., Norman J. Barry, Joseph P. Della Maria, Jr., and Roger J. Guerin of Rothschild, Barry & Myers, Chicago, Ill., for defendant McDonnell Douglas Corp.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ROBSON and WILL, District Judges.

The present cases arise from the crash of an American Airlines jet near O'Hare International Airport on May 25, 1979. These and other cases filed in the wake of the crash have been consolidated in this Court for pretrial proceedings. Plaintiffs, administrators or executors of the estates of persons who died in the crash or surviving relatives of crash victims, brought wrongful death actions against American...

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