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IN RE AIR CRASH DISASTER NEAR NEW ORLEANS, LA.

Nos. 84-3832, 84-3833.

789 F.2d 1092 (1986)

In re AIR CRASH DISASTER NEAR NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA ON JULY 9, 1982. Louis Alberto TRIVELLONI-LORENZI, and Susana Electra Trivelloni-Lorenzi, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellants. Ernesto Serio PAMPIN LOPEZ, Individually and As Administrator of the Estate of His Deceased Mother Sara E. Lopez De Pampin, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS, INC. and United States of America, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Granted July 8, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, Francis G. Weller, Frederick R. Bott, Darrell K. Cherry, Robert E. Kerrigan, Jr., New Orleans, La., for defendants-appellants.

Patricia R. Murray, Stephen B. Murray, Romualdo Gonzalez, New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before: GARZA, POLITZ and HILL, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

POLITZ, Circuit Judge:

This chapter in the continuing judicial terminus of the claims arising out of the crash of Pan American World Airways Flight 759 on takeoff from Moisant International Airport on July 9, 1982, presents several issues: (1) application of the rubric of forum non conveniens; (2) Warsaw Convention limitation of liability; and (3) as to the damage awards, questions of excessiveness, discounting, prejudgment interest, and allowance...

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