United States First Circuit

In a suit brought by a class of "skycaps", airport porters who, among other things, assist passengers with curbside check-in, against an airline for alleged violations of state law arising out of the imposition at airports of a $2.00 per-bag, curbside check-in fee, the district court's grant of defendant's motion to dismiss is affirmed where circuit precedent and the Airline Deregulation Act, 49 U.S.C. section 41713(b)(1), preempted each of the skycaps' claims.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/12/2015
• Published 06/12/2015

Judges

• Barron

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel