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IN RE KOREAN AIR LINES DISASTER OF SEPT. 1, 1983

MDL No. 565. Miscellaneous No. 83-0345.

935 F.Supp. 10 (1996)

In re KOREAN AIR LINES DISASTER OF SEPTEMBER 1, 1983.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

Order Certifying Decision for Interlocutory Appeal July 1, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Juanita M. Madole, Speiser, Krause, Madole & Cook, Irvine, California.

George N. Tompkins, Jr., George N. Tompkins, III, Andrew J. Harakas, Tompkins, Harakas, Elsasser & Tompkins, White Plains, New York, Timothy J. Lynes, Condon & Forsyth, Washington, D.C.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

AUBREY E. ROBINSON, Jr., District Judge.

On September 1, 1983, Korean Air Lines ("KAL") flight KE007 was shot down by a Soviet military aircraft, after it had veered off its course into Soviet airspace, killing all 269 passengers. The liability of KAL for those deaths was determined in a multidistrict litigation action in the District Court for the District of Columbia.1 In that action, a jury...

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