McCarthy v. Northwest Airlines, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting plaintiff's suggestion of airline control in the absence of evidence that the airline refused a request to return plaintiff's travel documents
• first quoting Griggs-Ryan v. Smith, 904 F.2d 112, 115 (1st Cir. 1990); and then quoting Medina–Munoz v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., 896 F.2d 5, 8 (1st Cir.1990)
• same, where the injury “happened at a considerable distance from the departure gate”
• “We believe it is no mere happenstance that the plaintiff has not cited — and we have been unable to deterrate — a single instance in which Article 17 has been found to cover an accident that occurred within the public area of a terminal facility.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).