Azza EID; Amre R. Ginena; Nahid I. Ginena; Reda A. Ginena; Sabrina Kobert; M. Samir Mansour; Nazmi M. Nazmi; M. Magdy H. Rasikh; Heba Nazmi, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
ALASKA AIRLINES, INC., Defendant-Appellee.
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Stephen B. Mashney , Mashney Law Offices, Anaheim, CA, for amicus curiae American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.
Jonathan A. Cohen and James W. Johnson , Air Line Pilots Association, International, Herndon, VA, for amicus curiae Air Line Pilots Association, International.
David A. Berg and Katherine Andrus , Air Transport Association of America, Inc., Washington, D.C., and Constance O'Keefe , Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Air Transport Association of America, Inc.
Tarik S. Adlai , Law Offices of Tarik S. Adlai, Pasadena, CA, for amicus curiae Arab Republic of Egypt.
Opinion by Chief Judge KOZINSKI; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge OTERO.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
OPINION
KOZINSKI, Chief Judge:
We consider when airlines may be held liable to passengers on international flights whom they force to disembark before the voyage is completed.
Facts
These are the facts as plaintiffs allege them: On September 29, 2003, a group of Egyptian businessmen, their wives and a Brazilian fiancée, boarded Alaska Airlines Flight 694 in Vancouver, British Columbia...
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