Willie H. Harris, Ernestine Harris v. Polskie Linie Lotnicze, AKA Lot Polish Airlines, a Corporation, Defendant

How courts have described this case

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

• applying law of place of injury, under Second Restatement analysis, in suit arising out of airplane crash
• applying law of place of injury, under Second Restatement analysis, in suit arising out of airplane crash
• utilizing federal-common-law principles to apply Polish law in a case brought under § 1605(a)(2)
• \Evidently damages are to be measured according to the internal law of a party to the Convention\
• “Evidently damages are to be measured according to the internal law of a party to the Convention”
• “For many years 27 it has been the rule that a federal court sitting in diversity applies the conflict-of-law rules of the state in which it sits.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).