AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC. v. ALLIED PILOTS ASS'N

No. 99-10814.

228 F.3d 574 (2000)

AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ALLIED PILOTS ASSOCIATION, et al., Defendants, Allied Pilots Association, Richard T. Lavoy, and Brian A. Mayhew, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

As Revised September 22, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dee J. Kelly, Sr., Donald E. Herrmann, Roger C. Diseker, Kelly, Hart & Hallman, Fort Worth, TX, Harry Anthony Rissetto (argued), Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Edgar Neville James, James & Hoffman, Robert M. Weinberg (argued), Bredhoff & Kaiser, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before WIENER, BENAVIDES and PARKER, Circuit Judges.


ROBERT M. PARKER, Circuit Judge:

Defendants-Appellants, Allied Pilots Association ("APA") and two of its officers, appeal an adjudication of civil contempt against them and an award of compensatory damages for that contempt. The district court awarded approximately $45.5 million dollars in compensatory damages after finding that defendants failed to carry out a temporary restraining order mandating that they call off a "sick out" by the pilot members of the APA. Defendants...

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