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IN RE HIJACKING OF PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS

No. MDL-724 (JES).

729 F.Supp. 17 (1990)

In re HIJACKING OF PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS, INC. AIRCRAFT AT KARACHI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, PAKISTAN ON SEPTEMBER 5, 1986.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

January 18, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kreindler & Kreindler, New York City, Magana, Cathcart, McCarthy & Pierry and Morgan, Wenzel & McNicholas, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff's Steering Committee; Marc S. Moller and Steven R. Pounian, New York City, of counsel.

Windels, Marx, Davies & Ives, New York City, for defendants; James M. Shaughnessy, of counsel.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

SPRIZZO, District Judge:

Defendant, Pan American World Airways, Inc. ("Pan Am"), has moved pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56 for partial summary judgment dismissing all claims seeking the imposition of punitive damages.1 Pan Am claims that because Article 17 of the Warsaw Convention as supplemented by the Montreal Agreement2 (collectively referred to as the...

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