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IN RE AIR CRASH DISASTER NEAR CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

No. 84-2774.

771 F.2d 338 (1985)

In re AIR CRASH DISASTER NEAR CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ON MAY 15, 1979. Richard J. MORUZI, Administrator of the Estate of Debra A. Moruzi, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. McDONNELL DOUGLAS CORPORATION and American Airlines, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 4, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terrence J. Lavin, Corboy & Demetrio, P.C., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Norman J. Barry, Rothschild Barry & Myers, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

Before BAUER and WOOD, Circuit Judges, and FAIRCHILD, Senior Circuit Judge.

HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves a single issue: whether an adult sibling may recover damages under the Illinois Wrongful Death Act for loss of an adult decedent's society. We hold that Illinois law does not permit such recovery.

Twenty-one-year-old Debra Moruzi died when a DC-10 jet aircraft on which she was a passenger crashed shortly after takeoff from O'Hare International Airport on May 25, 1979. The present action, brought by...

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