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CONTINENTAL AIRLINES, INC. v. KIEFER

Nos. 94-1143, 95-0500.

920 S.W.2d 274 (1996)

CONTINENTAL AIRLINES, INC., Petitioner v. Norma L. KIEFER and Robert C. Kiefer, Respondents. AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC. and Metro Airlines, Inc., Petitioners v. Douglas O. SHUPE, Douglas A. Shupe and Marsha L. Shupe, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided April 12, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dee J. Kelly, Fort Worth, Debra S. Fitzgerald, Dallas, Kim M. Meaders, Dallas, Donald E. Herrmann, Tomi Kay Mills, Fort Worth, for petitioner.

Laurance L. Priddy, Fort Worth, for respondents.

HECHT, Justice, delivered the opinion of the Court, in which PHILLIPS, C.J., and GONZALEZ, CORNYN, ENOCH, SPECTOR, OWEN and ABBOTT, JJ., join.

We granted the applications for writ of error in these two cases and consolidated them to consider to what extent state common-law personal-injury negligence actions against airlines are preempted by the federal Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 (ADA), which as recodified provides, with certain limitations unimportant here,...

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