TWARDOWSKI v. AMERICAN AIRLINES

Nos. 06-16726, 06-16730, 06-16746, 06-16749, 06-16751, 06-16752, 06-16767, 06-16768, 06-16771, 06-16773, 06-16776, 06-16777, 06-16782, 06-16783, 06-16786, 06-16788, 06-16792, 06-16797, 06-16801, 06-16803, 06-16804, 06-16805, 06-16831, 06-16832, 06-16836, 06-16837, 06-16855, 06-16860, 06-16863, 06-16985, 06-16987, 06-17019, 06-17027, 06-17028, 06-17044.

535 F.3d 952 (2008)

Anthony R. TWARDOWSKI, an individual, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AMERICAN AIRLINES, Inc.; America West Airlines, Inc., Defendants-Appellees. Myra Gail Kaste; Keith Kaste; Kelvin Kaste; Kenneth Kaste; Kim Georing; Kay Kohrer, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Northwest Airlines; KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Defendants-Appellees. Debra Miller; Michael Dobler, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Ernest-William Reitschel; Marsha Dabulis, Plaintiffs, Continental Airlines, Inc.; Air France, a French corporation, Defendants-Appellees, and The Boeing Company; American Airlines, Inc.; Northwest Airlines, Inc.; Spirit Airlines, Inc; Delta Air Lines, Inc, Defendants. Daniel Wylie, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. American Airlines, Inc., Defendant-Appellee, and The Boeing Company; Recarao Aircraft Seating; Weber Aircraft LP, Defendants. Alan Reining, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Lufthansa Airlines, Defendant-Appellee, and Airbus Industrie, GIE, Defendant. Michael Williams, individually as personal representative and as successor in interest to the Estate of Robert Williams, deceased; Mark Williams, individually, and as successor in interest to the Estate of Robert Williams, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. American Airlines, Inc., Defendant-Appellee, and The Boeing Company, Defendant. Yesmin A. Canterbury; Scott Canterbury, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. US Airways, Defendant-Appellee. Sherri Rahim; Javaid Rahim, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Continental Airlines, Inc., Defendant-Appellee, and The Boeing Company, Defendant. Frank S. Klonoski; Sydne E. Klonoski, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. British Airways, a corporation, Defendant-Appellee, United Airlines, Inc., a corporation, Defendant-Appellee, and Austrian Airlines Group, a corporation; Tyrolean Airways, a corporation, Defendants, Doe Seat Manufacturer; Delta Air Lines, Inc., Defendants. Dixie Webb; David Webb, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. American Airlines; Singapore Airlines Limited, a corporation, Defendants-Appellees, and Doe Seat Manufacturer, Defendant. Bernardo A. Conte; Lidia Conte, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. British Airways, PLC, Defendant-Appellee. Jan Leenders, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines; Continental Airlines Inc., Defendants-Appellees. William Herbert Smith, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. United Airlines Inc., a corporation, Defendant-Appellee. Ronald Gardner; Luanne Gardner, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Varig; Continental Airlines, Inc.; Doe Seat Manufacturer, Defendants-Appellees. Richard Stein; Charlotte Stein, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Miami Air Charters; The Boeing Company; Miami Air International, Inc., Defendants-Appellees. Taufik Ridani; Jana Fawn Mills, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Defendant-Appellee, and The Boeing Company; Northwest Airlines, Inc., Defendants. Charles Cooluris, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. United Airlines, Inc.; UAL Corporation, Defendants-Appellees, and Boeing Company, Defendant. Madhavi Parvathaneni, individually, as personal representative, and as successor in interest to the Estate of Srinivas Samineni, deceased, and as Guardian Ad Litem for Aneesh V. Samineni, a minor, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Singapore Airlines, a corporation, Defendant-Appellee, and Indian Airlines, Defendant. Evelyn Plotkin, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. British Airways PLC, a corporation; Boeing Company, Defendants-Appellees, and Flying Service Engineering and Equipment, Ltd., Defendant. Christine Bryne, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. United Airlines, Inc.; UAL Corporation, Defendants-Appellees, and The Boeing Company, Defendant. Mark Woods; Laura Smith, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Air New Zealand; Doe Seat Manufacturer, Defendants-Appellees. Richard Jaffe; Ellen Jaffe, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. El Al Israel Airlines, Limited; American Airlines, Inc., Defendants-Appellees. Marsha Shumaker, individually and as Guardian Ad Litem for plaintiffs Ryan Shumaker and Katie Shumaker; Ryan Shumaker, a minor; Katie Shumaker, a minor, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UAL Corporation; United Air Lines, Inc.; United Airlines Inc., Defendants-Appellees. James C. Tepe, individually, and as personal representative and executor of the Estate of Rosemary Tepe, Deceased; Mary Therese Hankner; Patricia Kreiling; Susanne Tepe; Peter Tepe; Jean Tolbert; Jean Wurtenberger; Lawrence Tepe; Anne Tepe; Marylin Seastrom; Jerome A. Tepe; Matthew Tepe, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Air New Zealand; Delta Airlines; Delta Airlines Inc., Defendants-Appellees, and The Boeing Company, Defendant. Ronald Slosky, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Alaska Airlines, Inc., Defendant-Appellee. Janice Schmidt, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Continental Airlines, Inc., Defendant-Appellee. Joseph J. Labadia, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Virgin Atlantic Airways, Ltd., Defendant-Appellee. Kamil Matyska, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines; Northwest Airlines, Inc.; The Boeing Company, Defendants-Appellees. Wilson Oliveira; Paula Seixas, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. United Air Lines, Inc.; UAL Corporation; Boeing Company, Defendants-Appellees. Tapa Biswas; Sushmita Roy, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. British Airways, Defendant-Appellee. Cynthia Rials, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. United Airlines; Japan Airlines; Doe Seat Manufacturer; United Airlines, Inc, Defendants-Appellees. Frank S. Klonoski; Sydne E. Klonoski, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Delta Airlines, Inc.; British Airways; Austrian Airlines Group; Tyrolean Airways; United Airlines, Inc; Doe Seat Manufacturer, Defendants-Appellees. Shawn Harris, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ATA Airlines, Inc., a corporation, Defendant-Appellee. Channa Vajjala Prasad, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ATA Airlines Inc.; Lufthansa German Airlines, Defendants-Appellees. Julie Brackenbury; Christopher Brackenbury, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Virgin Atlantic Airways, Ltd., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed July 30, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clay Robbins, Magana Cathcart & McCarthy, Los Angeles, CA, (argued); Randy Baker, Seattle, WA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

William Boyce, Fulbright & Jaworski, Houston, TX; Richard Grotch, Coddington, Hicks & Danforth, Redwood City, CA; Samantha D. Hilton, Kenney & Markowitz, San Francisco, CA; Charles L. Coleman, Holland & Knight, San Francisco, CA; Clem C. Trischler, Pietragallo, Bosick & Gordon, Pittsburgh, PA (argued); Sara A. Simmons, Law Offices of Sara A. Simmons, San Francisco, CA; Kevin R. Sutherland, Clyde & Co. US, Woodland Hills, CA; Diane Westwood Wilson, New York, NY; Jeffrey A. Worthe, Santa Ana, CA; Rod D. Margo, San Francisco, CA, (argued), for the defendants-appellees.

Before: FLETCHER and PAMELA ANN RYMER, Circuit Judges, and KEVIN THOMAS DUFFY, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

In these consolidated appeals,1 airline passengers or their survivors appeal from summary judgment in favor of Continental Airlines and a number of other air carriers on their claim for damages for failure to warn of the risk of Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) on international flights. They argue that the airlines' refusal of requests to warn was an unexpected event and thus, an "accident" under Article 17 of the Warsaw Convention...

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