KOPPIE v. U.S.

No. 92-3125.

1 F.3d 651 (1993)

Chad M. KOPPIE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America and Ligon "Air", an Indiana partnership, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 11, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dean E. Richards, Indianapolis, IN (argued), Vincent J. Backs, Beers, Mallers, Backs & Salin, Fort Wayne, IN, for Chad Koppie.

Richard E. Steinbronn (argued), Deborah A. Lawrence, Barnes & Thornburg, Fort Wayne, IN, for Ligon "Air".

Robert A. Doehl, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Torts Branch, Civ. Div., Washington, DC, for U.S.

Before BAUER, Chief Judge, and CUMMINGS and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.


CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Chad M. Koppie sued Ligon "Air", an Indiana partnership, and the Federal Aviation Administration ("FAA"),* over the ownership of a plane. Koppie claims that Ligon "Air" is in control of the aircraft, a Convair 880, which he rightly owns, and that the FAA took the wrong side in the dispute by issuing a Certificate of Registration to Ligon "Air" rather than to him. Plaintiff claims that these misdeeds by...

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