United States Ninth Circuit

For purposes of determining forum non conveniens, New Zealand's Accident Compensation Act, which provides administrative remedies for air-crash damages but disallows lump sum payments for non-economic damages, is a sufficient remedy in an alternative forum.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/06/2000
• Decided 01/08/2001
• Published 01/08/2001

Judges

• PAEZ, Circuit Judge:, Before:  SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, BEEZER and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steven D. Copple,Copple, Chamberlin, Boehm, & Murphy, Phoenix, Arizona, for the plaintiffs-appellants., Terry O'Reilly and Gary L. Simms, O'Reilly, Collins & Danko, Menlo Park, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• James H. Marburger, Gust Rosenfeld, Phoenix, Arizona, for defendant-appellee Sundstrand Corporation., James A. Teilborg, Teilborg, Sanders & Park, Phoenix, Arizona for defendants-appellees Hydraulic Units, Inc., and Messier-Dowty International., Thad T. Dameris, Vinson & Elkins, Houston, Texas, for defendant-appellee Messier-Dowty International., James W. Hunt and Alan H. Collier, Mendes & Mount, Los Angeles, California, for defendant-appellee Honeywell Corporation., Edward R. Glady, Goodwin Raup, Phoenix, Arizona, for defendant-appellee deHavilland, Inc., Richard Clark Coyle and Kevin C. Osborn, Perkins Coie, Seattle, Washington, for defendant-appellee deHavilland, Inc.