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PREGEANT v. PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS, INC.

No. 84-3136.

762 F.2d 1245 (1985)

Judy PREGEANT, Individually and as the Administratrix of the Estate of Susan Savoie, Ruth Toups, Janice Martinez, Bernice P. Savoie and Antoine R. Savoie, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS, INC., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 17, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, Francis G. Weller, New Orleans, La., for defendant-appellant.

Klein & Rouse, Henry L. Klein, New Orleans, La., Randall R. Moore, Alice C. Oppenheim, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before GOLDBERG, POLITZ and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

POLITZ, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs are the surviving parents and the estate of Susan Savoie, a 35-year-old single, former flight attendant aboard the ill-fated Pan American Flight 759 which crashed on take-off from Moisant International Airport on July 9, 1982. In a trial presided over by then magistrate, now district judge Marcel Livaudais, the jury returned a verdict in favor of each parent for $150,000 and awarded $16,000 for pre-impact mental anguish and $20,000...

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