Jimenez-Ruiz v. Spirit Airlines, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that personal injury claims based on a state’s general negligence law are not preempted by the ADA
• concluding that plaintiff’s claim for personal injuries sustained while disembarking an aircraft was not preempted by the ADA
• summarizing various Circuit Court decisions that found when plaintiff invoked traditional elements of tort law, courts have almost uniformly found no federal preemption
• personal injury claim under common law negligence does not emanate from state regulation of the airlines and is not preempted by the ADA.

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