United Airlines, Inc. v. Lerner

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that travel agent owed a duty to “disclose all information the agent learns which is material to the object of the agency” but neither a duty to investigate nor to “inform its clients of potential dangers ahead”
• Travel agent “is a special agent, akin to a broker, which engages in a single business transaction with the principal_ The law requires only that agents be loyal, not prescient”
• no duty of travel agent to disclose road closure that could affect customer travel plans because “[t]he law requires only that agents be loyal, not prescient” and that “United was not required to tell Lerner of possible hindrances to his vacation”
• denying any duty of investigation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Johnson v. Priceline.com, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2013-03-27· cited 167×
• Chiste v. Hotels.com L.P.
  S.D. New York· 2010-11-15· cited 88×
• McCollum v. Friendly Hills Travel Center
  California Court of Appeal· 1985-09-12· cited 30×
• Manes v. Coats
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1997-06-20· cited 28×
• Douglas v. Steele
  Court of Civil Appeals of Oklahoma· 1991-08-13· cited 13×
• Josephs v. Fuller (Club Dominicus)
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1982-01-08· cited 13×
• Krautsack v. Anderson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2002-03-29· cited 12×
• Fling v. Hollywood Travel and Tours
  N.D. Ohio· 1990-09-26· cited 10×
• Schwartz v. Hilton Hotels Corp.
  D. New Jersey· 2009-06-30· cited 9×
• Philippe v. Lloyd's Aero Boliviano
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1991-10-18· cited 7×
• Karkomi v. American Airlines, Inc.
  N.D. Illinois· 1989-08-03· cited 4×
• Das v. Royal Jordanian Airlines
  S.D. New York· 1991-06-14· cited 4×
• Ness v. Pan American World Airways
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1988-11-28· cited 3×
• Slotnick v. Club ABC Tours, Inc.
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2012-10-09· cited 1×
• McReynolds v. RIU Resorts & Hotels
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2016-04-15

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Simpson v. Compagnie Nationale Air France
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1969-05-28· cited 23×
• Rosen v. DePorter-Butterworth Tours, Inc.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1978-08-07· cited 19×
• Bucholtz v. Sirotkin Travel Ltd.
  Nassau County District Court· 1973-04-25· cited 19×
• Semmelroth v. American Airlines
  E.D. Illinois· 1978-04-07· cited 12×