Cohen v. McDonnell Douglas Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that mother who did not learn of her son’s death in airplane crash until seven hours after the crash could not recover
• denying recovery when mother did not learn of son’s death in a plane crash until seven hours after the accident
• determining which state had a “more significant relationship” to the plaintiffs tort claim
• “the usual first step in applying conflict of laws principles is to determine whether there is a conflict among the laws of the various states involved”
• “[T]he usual first step in applying conflict of law principles is to ascertain whether there is a conflict among the laws of the various States involved”
• “usual first step in applying conflict of law principles is to ascertain whether there is a conflict among the laws of the various States involved”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).