Ugaz v. American Airlines, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that \there is simply no evidence whatsoever that an inoperable escalator is an 'unusual or unexpected event' sufficient to constitute an 'accident.' \
• granting summary judgment for defendant upon finding that an “inoperable escalator” was not “an ‘unusual or unexpected event’ sufficient to constitute an ‘accident’ ”
• “appropriate to rely on cases interpreting the Warsaw [Cjonvention where the equivalent provision of the Montreal Convention is substantively the same”
• “For all air transportation to which the Montreal Convention applies, if an action for damages falls within one [of] the treaty’s damage provisions, then the treaty provides the sole cause of action under which a claimant may seek redress for his injuries.”
• “For all air transportation to which the Montreal Convention applies, if an action for damages falls within . . . the treaty’s damage provisions, then the treaty provides the sole cause of action under which a claimant may seek redress for his injuries.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).