Weiss v. El Al Israel Airlines, Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that bumping claims are “not preempted by the Montreal Convention”
• dismissing tort claims without applying the three-part Rombom test because tort claims were “clearly preempted by the ADA”
• reaching an issue first raised in a reply memoran dum where opposing party did not seek leave to file a surreply and the failure to consider the new argument would “vest in plaintiffs a right of action that Congress has declined to create”
• plaintiffs’ claims were grounded in non-performance of contract and not preempted by Convention when plaintiffs were bumped from flight and airline failed to provide alternative transportation
• plaintiffs’ claims were grounded in non-performance of contract and not preempted by Convention when plaintiffs were bumped from flight and airline failed to provide alternative transportation
• granting motion to dismiss tort claims on preemption grounds

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