PIERPOINT v. BARNES

No. 925, Docket 95-7736.

94 F.3d 813 (1996)

Nancy PIERPOINT, Frederick Townsend, Administrator of the Estates of Geoffrey Pierpoint and Lauren Pierpoint; Dolores Willis, Administratrix of the Estate of Stacey Bjorkander and as Guardian Ad Litem of the Estates of Katie Bosko and Sara Bosko, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Brian A. BARNES, Administrator of the Estate of David L. Pierpoint, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 5, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen E. Arnold, Hartford, CT, (Jack G. Steigelfest, Matthew D. Gilmond, Howard, Kohn, Sprague & Fitzgerald, Hartford, CT, of counsel), for Defendant-Appellant.

Stephen Jacques, Cheshire, CT (Garrett M. Moore, Gregory E. O'Brien, Moore & O'Brien, Cheshire, CT, of counsel), for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Before: JACOBS, LEVAL and PARKER, Circuit Judges.


PARKER, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs represent the estates and dependents of three individuals who were killed when the private airplane in which they were flying went down thirty-seven miles off the New Jersey shore. They filed suit in Connecticut state court. Defendant removed the case to federal court on the grounds that plaintiffs' claim arose under a law of the United States, namely the Death on the High Seas Act ("DOHSA"), 46 U.S.C. §§ 761 et seq....

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