BICKEL v. KOREAN AIR LINES CO., LTD.

Nos. 93-2144, 93-2259, 93-2549, 94-1095, 94-1096, 94-1098, 94-1100 and 94-1101.

83 F.3d 127 (1996)

Daisy E. BICKEL, Representative for Edna Doris Miller; Dorothy Jones, Estate of Joyce Chambers; Willie N. James, Personal Representative of the Estate of Hazel Jeanne James, Plaintiffs-Appellees, Richard A. Bowden, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Eleanor Beatrice Young Bissell, Plaintiff-Appellee, Cross-Appellant, Michael D. Jones, Personal Representative of the Estate of Margaret Zarif, a/k/a Margaret Jones, Plaintiff-Appellee, Cross-Appellant, v. KOREAN AIR LINES COMPANY, LTD., Defendant-Appellant, Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided April 29, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald G. White, Timothy J. Currier, Robert G. Waddell, Beier & Howlett, Bloomfield Hills, MI, Kevin L. Mosley, Aaron J. Broder (argued and briefed), Meryl I. Schwartz, F. Lee Bailey Assoc., New York City, for Plaintiff-Appellee Bickel in No. 93-2144.

Timothy J. Currier, Beier & Howlett, Bloomfield Hills, MI, Kevin L. Mosley, Aaron J. Broder (argued and briefed), Meryl I. Schwartz, F. Lee Bailey Assoc., New York City, for Plaintiff-Appellee Bickel in No. 93-2259.

David R. Parker (argued and briefed), Lawrence F. Charfoos, Charfoos & Christensen, Detroit, MI, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Chambers and Jones in No. 93-2549.

Angela J. Nicita (argued and briefed), Michael S. Mazur, Patricia A. Murray, Chambers, Steiner, Mazur, Ornstein & Amlin, Detroit, MI, for Plaintiff-Appellee James in No. 94-1095.

George M. Head (argued and briefed), David William Potts (briefed), Carson Fischer, Birmingham, MI, for Plaintiff-Appellee, Cross-Appellant Bowden in Nos. 94-1096, 94-1098.

Steven R. Gabel (argued and briefed), Gerald E. Thurswell, Thurswell, Chayet & Weiner, Southfield, MI, for Plaintiff-Appellee, Cross-Appellant Jones in Nos. 94-1100, 94-1101.

Robert R. Florka, Birmingham, MI, Andrew J. Harakas (argued and briefed), Jeanine C. Veracoechea, George N. Tompkins, Jr. (briefed), Tompkins, Harakas, Elsasser & Tompkins, White Plains, NY, for Defendant-Appellant, Cross-Appellee Korean Air Lines Company, Ltd.

Before: MERRITT, Chief Judge; BROWN and BATCHELDER, Circuit Judges.


BATCHELDER, Circuit Judge.

The underlying facts of these cases are quite notorious. They have been set forth in some considerable detail elsewhere, see In re Korean Air Lines Disaster of Sept. 1, 1983, 932 F.2d 1475, 1477-1479 (D.C.Cir.) (Korean Air), cert. denied, 502 U.S. 994, 112 S.Ct. 616, 116 L.Ed.2d 638 (1991), and it is, therefore, unnecessary to do so again here. In short, on September 1, 1983, a Korean...

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