United States Eleventh Circuit

An airline employee's assault and restraint against a passenger was "in the course of embarking" an intended flight within the meaning of the Warsaw Convention, thus its two-year limitations period applied to bar a claim based on that attack.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/12/2002
• Published 07/12/2002

Judges

• MAGILL, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT, COX and MAGILL , Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ronald Cohen, New York City, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Nancy H. Henry, Carlton Fields, Miami, FL, for Defendants-Appellees.