Joan M. Spaulding v. United States of America

How courts have described this case

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

• controller’s duty to warn did not relieve pilot of responsibility not to disregard adverse weather conditions
• “A pilot cannot ignore the weather information he has been given or disregard the weather conditions he sees around him.”
• controller’s duty to warn does not relieve pilot of his primary duty and responsibility
• two witnesses testified about pilot’s disorientation as cause of fatal crash
• “general negligence law applies to airplane tort cases”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).