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TRANS WORLD AIRLINES, INC. v. MATTOX

Nos. 89-1142, 89-1509 and 89-1610.

897 F.2d 773 (1990)

TRANS WORLD AIRLINES, INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Jim MATTOX, Attorney General of the State of Texas, Defendant-Appellant. TRANS WORLD AIRLINES, INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Jim MATTOX, Attorney General of the State of Texas, et al., Defendants-Appellants. TRANS WORLD AIRLINES, INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, Pan American World Airways, Intervening-Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jim MATTOX, Attorney General of the State of Texas, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 3, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Henry Gardner and Craig Jordan, Asst. Attys. Gen., Dallas, Tex., Albert Norman Shelden, Deputy Atty. Gen., San Diego, Cal., for defendants-appellants.

Ronald D. Secrest, David Wilks Corban, Richard J. Wilson, Rene P. Lavenant, Jr., Fulbright & Jaworski, Houston, Tex., Andrew C. Freedman, Fulbright Jaworski & Reavis McGrath, New York City, Frederick D. Bostwick, III, Waco, Tex., for plaintiff-appellees.

Mary McGuire Voog and Mark Aaron Buckstein, Mt. Kisco, N.Y., for Trans World Airlines, Inc.

Mark McCall, John W. Dickey and David Feher, Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City, Karen K. Crider, British Airways Legal Dept., Jackson Heights, New York City, for British Airways.

John Williams, Houston, Tex., for Continental Airlines.

Melvin L. Goldberg, Andrea C. Levine and Ronna D. Brown, N.Y. Dept. of Law, New York City, amicus curiae for 38 States.

Gregory W. Buhler, New York City, for Pan American World Airways.

Before LIVELY, JOLLY and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.

LIVELY, Circuit Judge.

The dispositive question in these consolidated appeals is whether state laws proscribing deceptive advertising are preempted by federal law when the state attempts to enforce such laws against the advertising of fares by interstate and international airlines. Three separate appeals were consolidated for oral argument. We refer to the cases by their Court of Appeals numbers.

In number 89-1142, the Defendant-Appellant is Jim Mattox, the...

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