Maxwell v. Aer Lingus Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the flight crew was involved with an injury resulting from items falling from an overhead bin because the cabin crew is responsible for securing the bins before takeoff
• “Liability for injuries resulting from that risk [terrorism] is allocated to the carrier for the simple reason that the carrier is in a far superior position than are passengers to institute protective safeguards.”
• “An airline simply cannot by admonitory messages shift the onus of policing the proper stowage of overhead items from the aircraft’s crew to the flying public, which is neither suited nor inclined to the task.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).