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IN RE AIRCRASH IN BALI, INDONESIA ON APRIL 22, 1974

Nos. 79-3341, 78-3761 — 78-3763.

684 F.2d 1301 (1982)

In re AIRCRASH IN BALI, INDONESIA ON APRIL 22, 1974 John P. CAUSEY, Jr., etc., et al., Plaintiffs-Designated Appellants, v. PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS, INC., etc., Defendants-Designated Appellees. Simone RYDER, etc., et al., Plaintiffs-Designated Appellants, v. PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS, INC., etc., Defendants-Designated Appellees. Margaret G. JOHNS, etc., et al., Plaintiffs-Designated Appellants, v. PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS, INC., etc., Defendants-Designated Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided August 24, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clinton H. Coddington, Tucker & Coddington, Los Angeles, Cal., Mark H. Gallant, Washington, D. C., for Pan American World Airways.

James G. Butler, Los Angeles, Cal., for Ryder.

Mark P. Robinson, Los Angeles, Cal., for Causey.

Nicholas R. Allis, Geneva, Switzerland, for amicus.

Before FLETCHER and PREGERSON, Circuit Judges, and SOLOMON,* District Judge.

FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:

These suits arise out of an aircrash in Bali, Indonesia, on April 22, 1974, in which plaintiffs' decedents and 104 other persons were killed. A jury found defendant Pan American World Airways, Inc. (Pan Am) negligent, and awarded damages in the amount of $300,000 to the Causey plaintiffs and $651,500 to the Ryder plaintiffs. The district court declined to reduce the verdicts to the limits imposed by the Warsaw Convention, October 12, 1929...

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