United States Eighth Circuit

In an action for damages under the Warsaw Convention after an airline crash, emotional damages are recoverable to the extent they are caused by physical injuries suffered, but physical manifestations of mental injuries are not compensable; evidence of injuries was insufficient to sustain a $6.5 million verdict, and plaintiff is offered remittitur of $1.5 million.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/29/2002
• Published 05/29/2002

Judges

• BEAM, Circuit Judge., Before HANSEN, Chief Judge, McMILLIAN and BEAM, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• G. Luke Ashley, Thompson & Knight LLP, Dallas, TX;  Randal Robert Craft, Jr., Alan D. Reitzfeld, and Joanna L. Geraghty, Holland & Knight LLP, New York, NY;  and Michael E. Hale and D. Keith Fortner, Barber, McCaskill, Jones & Hale, P.A., Little Rock, AR, for American Airlines., Douglas Hallward-Driemeier, Stuart E. Schiffer, Michael D. Johnson, Robert S. Greenspan and Richard A. Olderman, Department of Justice, Washington, DC and Rosalind A. Knapp, Paul M. Grier, and Dale C. Andrews, Department of Transportation, Washington, DC, for amicus United States of America., Warren L. Dean, Jr. and Patricia N. Snyder, Thompson Coburn LLP, Washington, DC and Jordan B. Cherrick, St. Louis, MO, and Robert R. Warren, James L. Casey, and David A. Berg, Air Transport Association of America, Inc., Washington, DC, for amicus Air Transport Assn. of America, Inc.


• For Appellees:
  
• William H. Sutton, J. Phillip Malcolm, Robert S. Shafer and Clifford W. Pluckett, Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP, Little Rock, AR, for appellee.