United States Ninth Circuit

Because the General Aviation Revitalization Act's eighteen-year limitations period had already passed by the time of defendant's helicopter crash, plaintiff's products liability claims against the craft's manufacturer were barred.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/06/2001
• Decided 03/15/2002
• Published 03/15/2002

Judges

• Before:  WOOD, Jr.,TROTT, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Keith A. Kemper and Kristen K. Waggoner, Ellis, Li & McKinstry, PLLC;  Franklin L. Smith and Susan Machler, Osborn Smith, Seattle, WA, for the plaintiff-appellee Estate of Robin Grant Kennedy., Frederick Meyers, David D. Swartling and Daniel R. Laurence, Mills Meyers Swartling, Seattle, Washington, for defendant-appellant Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc., William V. O'Connor and Michael R. Daymude, Kern and Wooley, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendant-appellant Garlick Helicopters, Inc.