United States Ninth Circuit

Federal courts lack jurisdiction over this wrongful death claim arising out of a plane crash in Indonesia. The tickets were marked "domestik," were not connected to decedents' international itinerary, and were purchased and issued in Indonesia; in sum, the parties regarded the flight as purely Indonesian domestic transportation not within the ambit of the Warsaw Convention.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/04/2003
• Decided 04/12/2004
• Published 04/12/2004

Judges

• O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:, Before: DIARMUID F. O'SCANNLAIN, FERDINAND F. FERNANDEZ, and RAYMOND C. FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Alan D. Reitzfeld (argued), James V. Marks, and Joanna L. Geraghty, Holland & Knight LLP, New York, New York, and Jonathan M. Hoffman and Douglas Pickett, Martin, Bischoff, Templeton, Langslet & Hoffman LLP, Portland Oregon, for the defendant-appellant., Floyd A. Wisner (argued), Nolan Law Group, Chicago, Illinois, and Susan R. Swanson, Esq., Portland, Oregon, for the plaintiff-appellee.