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IN RE DISASTER AT DETROIT METROPOLITAN AIRPORT AUG. 1987

No. 742.

750 F.Supp. 793 (1989)

In re DISASTER AT DETROIT METROPOLITAN AIRPORT ON AUGUST 16, 1987.

United States District Court, E.D. Michigan, S.D.

September 29, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Brewer, Phoenix, Ariz., Stanley Chesley, Cincinnati, Ohio, Lee Kreindler, New York City, Gerald Lear, Thomas Meehan, Washington, D.C., Richard Schaden, Birmingham, Mich., for plaintiff's Steering Committee.

Carroll E. Dubuc, Washington, D.C., for defendant Northwest Airlines.

John J. Hennelly, Los Angeles, Cal., Donald E. Shely, Detroit, Mich., for defendant McDonnell Douglas.

ORDER

JULIAN ABELE COOK, Jr., Chief Judge.

This Order is designed to resolve the plethora of pleadings that have raised choice of law issues in this multidistrict litigation.1 In a case of this magnitude, in which one hundred fifty-seven claims have been filed in four federal judicial districts against two defendants that are incorporated in different states, the choice of law questions are numerous. Yet, all of them must be...

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