United States Eleventh Circuit

Funds and financial benefits that Congress provided to the airline industry in response to the September 11 terrorist acts did not constitute "federal financial assistance" within the meaning of the Rehabilitation Act and, consequently, airline carriers cannot be sued under the Act in federal court.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/22/2005
• Published 08/22/2005

Judges

• DUBINA, Circuit Judge:, Before DUBINA and WILSON, Circuit Judges, and LAWSON, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daniel L. Leyton, Miguel M. de la O, de la O & Marko, Miami, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Stephanie R. Marcus, Marleigh D. Dover, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Laura Metcoff Klaus, Robert Phillip Charrow, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees.