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· 7/5/2000

United Airlines, Inc. v. Mesa Airlines, Inc.

Citations

  • 219 F.3d 605
  • 2000 WL 898694

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding fraud claim by commuter airline Mesa against airline United preempted because Mesa did not seek to enforce United’s self-imposed agreement with Mesa but, instead, sought to change parties’ bargain by applying state law to agreement and extract damages from United
  • “When all a state does it use [rules against force and fraud] to determine whether [a contractual] agreement was reached, ... it transgresses no federal rule.”
  • considering similar language in the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978

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Judges: Easterbrook, Ripple, Rovner

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