United States Fifth Circuit

The Airline Deregulation Act, 49 USC 41713(b)(1), preempts a travel agent's state law claims, but will not defeat the agent's defense to the airline's breach of contract suit that it was fraudulently induced into entering the contract.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/13/2002
• Published 02/14/2002

Judges

• EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:, Before JONES, SMITH and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen Henry Gardner (argued), Law Office of Stephen Gardner, Dallas, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant., William James Albright, Jane M.N. Webre (argued), Cynthia Saiter Connolly, Scott, Douglass & McConnico, Austin, TX, for American Airlines, Inc. and Sabre Group Inc.