Cherie CHARAS, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
TRANS WORLD AIRLINES, INC., Missouri corporation, Defendant-Appellee.
Mildred JACOBY, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
TRANS WORLD AIRLINES, INC., Defendant-Appellee,
and
John Doe, 1-10; Jane Doe, 1-10; Doe Corporations, 1-10; Doe Partners, 1-10; Doe Entities, 1-10, Defendants.
Bernice GULLEY, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
AMERICAN AIRLINES; AMR Corporation; American Eagle Airlines, Defendants-Appellees.
Elizabeth NEWMAN, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC., Defendant-Appellee,
and
Does 1 Through 50, inclusive, Defendants.
Robert A. BEVERAGE, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
CONTINENTAL AIRLINES, INC., Defendant-Appellee.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued and Submitted July 23, 1998.
Decided November 30, 1998.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Gerald A. Clausen and Edward M. Digardi, San Francisco, California, for appellant Gulley.
Saied Kashani, Frederick A. Meiser, Jr., A Law Corp., San Diego, CA (Eugene C. Gratz, Law Offices of Eugene C. Gratz, Laguna Beach, CA, on the briefs for Charas), for appellants Charas, Jacoby, Beverage, and Newman.
Stuart J. Starry (argued), Frank, Woodfill, Lucas & Pressler, LLP, Houston, Texas, Michael S. Danko (on the brief), O'Reilly, Collins & Danko, Menlo Park, California, for appellant Beverage.
Bonnie R. Cohen and Kymberly E. Speer, Nelsen, Greenberg & Cohen, San Francisco, California, for appellees Trans World Airlines, Inc., American Airlines, and Continental Airlines.
Donna H. Kalama, Goodsill, Anderson, Quinn & Stifel, Honolulu, Hawaii, on the briefs for appellee Trans World Airlines.
Harry Carter, Higgs, Fletcher, and Mack, San Diego, California, arguing for appellee American Airlines.
Before: HUG, Chief Judge, BROWNING, FLETCHER, BRUNETTI, THOMPSON, FERNANDEZ, RYMER, T. G. NELSON, KLEINFELD, TASHIMA, and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
SILVERMAN, Circuit Judge:
These consolidated cases cause us to consider once again the circumstances under which the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, 49 U.S.C. app. § 1305(a)(1) ("ADA"), preempts certain state law claims. Although we have addressed the scope of this statutory preemption before, we have taken these cases en banc sua sponte to rethink our previous decisions.1 We now hold that in enacting the ADA, Congress intended...
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