United States Ninth Circuit

The Warsaw Convention does not apply to an airport security company rendering services to both domestic and international air passengers, nor does it apply to airlines that did not provide international air carriage to plaintiff, thus a passenger's negligence and breach of bailment claims are not pre-empted by the Convention, and its limitation of liability provisions do not apply.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/01/2002
• Published 07/01/2002

Judges

• Before O'SCANNLAIN, TASHIMA, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Christopher Ashworth, San Jose, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas P. Gmelich, Barry A. Bradley, Glendale, CA, for defendant-appellee Globe Airport Security Services., Bonnie R. Cohen, Kymberly E. Speer, San Francisco, CA, for defendants-appellees America West Airlines, Inc., Trans World Airlines, Inc., and Continental Airlines, Inc.