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BUONOCORE v. TRANS WORLD AIRLINES, INC.

No. 961, Docket 89-9101.

900 F.2d 8 (1990)

Cecile BUONOCORE, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of John Buonocore, III, deceased, and John Buonocore, Jr., Appellants, v. TRANS WORLD AIRLINES, INC., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 27, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michel F. Baumeister, New York City (Allan Young, Elizabeth A. Mark, and Baumeister & Samuels, New York City, on the brief), for appellants, Cecile Buonocore and John Buonocore, Jr.

John N. Romans, New York City (Janine L. Pollack and Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, New York City, on the brief), for appellee, Trans World Airlines, Inc.

Before TIMBERS, MESKILL and ALTIMARI, Circuit Judges.

TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:

Appellants Cecile Buonocore and John Buonocore, Jr. appeal from a summary judgment in favor of TWA entered November 6, 1989 in the Southern District of New York, Robert P. Patterson, Jr., District Judge, dismissing the complaint. The court held that Article 17 of the Warsaw Convention, to which the United States is a signatory, did not render TWA liable for the death of John Buonocore, III ("Buonocore"), appellants' son.

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