United States Ninth Circuit

The ratification of the Montreal Protocol No. 4 brought The Hague Protocol into full force and effect in the U.S. on March 4, 1999. A stipulated judgment in favor of an insurer for goods lost in shipment by a carrier is vacated where the district court erred by applying the Original Warsaw Convention to the matter when the Hague Protocol was in force at the time the claims at issue arose.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/17/2005
• Decided 06/29/2006
• Published 06/29/2006

Judges

• HUG, Circuit Judge., Before HUG, PREGERSON, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Robert J. Taitz, argued, and David R. Shane, Shane & Taitz, Greenbrae, CA, for the defendant-appellant/appellee., Timothy R. Lord, Bernadette M. Chala, argued, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLP, Costa Mesa, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee/appellant.