Current Issue Highlights

  CESSNA STRIKES UNMARKED POWER LINE OVER LAKE — KENTUCKY APPEALS COURT SAYS THIS WAS FORESEEABLE — GRANT OF SUMMARY JUDGMENT TO POWER CO-OP REVERSED

  MIAMI ARTCC WORKERS BLAMED FOR FAILING TO ADVISE CESSNA T182T PILOT OF BAD WEATHER — FTCA CASE SETTLES FOR $915,000 IN FLORIDA

  DELTA PASSENGER FALLS AT AIRCRAFT DOOR DURING BOARDING — CONFIDENTIAL SETTLEMENT REACHED IN NEW YORK

  “LOCKBOX AGREEMENT” WHICH FOLLOWED BREACHED LEASE AGREEMENT CONTAINED SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION CLAUSE — COLORADO FEDERAL COURT FINDS CLAUSE GOOD ENOUGH TO BIND LESSEE’S CEO

  NO DISCOVERY OF INSURER’S CLAIMS FILE DURING COVERAGE DISPUTE SAYS FLORIDA APPEALS COURT — DISCOVERY ORDER QUASHED

  DEFECTIVE DESIGN OF CIRRUS SR22 BLAMED FOR NEUROLOGICAL INJURY TO HANDS AND FEET — FIFTH U.S. CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS AFFIRMS DISTRICT COURT’S GRANT OF SUMMARY JUDGMENT TO DEFENSES

  HERE’S EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT ELECTRONIC FILING — DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FEDERAL COURT DENIES MOTION TO VACATE ORDER OF DISMISSAL, THEN DENIES RECONSIDERATION OF THAT ACTION — SUIT BY MALE UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT ATTENDANT WITH “TAMED” DREADLOCKS DI SMISSED

  LOUISIANA FEDERAL COURT TRANSFERS CASE INVOLVING DEKALB-PEACHTREE AIRPORT GROUND COLLISION TO NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA

  KANSAS FEDERAL COURT SAYS GOVERNMENT’S COST RECOVERY COUNTERCLAIM IN HERINGTON FIELD CERCLA LITIGATION WAS PERMISSIVE, NOT COMPULSORY — RAYTHEON’S MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION OF DENIAL OF MOTION TO STRIKE DENIED

  FILING — CRASH OF ECO-STAR HELICOPTER BLAMED ON DEFECTIVE DIGITAL ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNITS

  FILING — FOURTEEN YEAR-OLD AMERICAN AIRLINES PASSENGER ALLEGEDLY ABANDONED FOR THE NIGHT AT DFW

  FILING — ELDERLY CHINA AIRLINES PASSENGER CLAIMS FALL RESULTED IN BROKEN ANKLE

  FILING — SOUTHWEST PASSENGER CLAIMS LIQUID ON FLOOR CAUSED FALL

  FAA ATTEMPTS TO SPEED UP CONTROLLER HIRING PROCESS