United States Ninth Circuit

In a wrongful death action against a plane manufacturer brought by family members of eight Macedonian residents, including the Macedonian president, who died in a plane accident in Bosnia in 2004, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where: 1) the presumption against extraterritoriality is not implicated in this case; and 2) thus, plaintiffs' action was barred by the eighteen-year statute of repose in the General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994 (GARA).

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/14/2008
• Decided 04/10/2008
• Published 04/10/2008

Judges

• D.W. NELSON, Senior Circuit Judge:, Before: D.W. NELSON and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges, and ROBERT J. TIMLIN, Senior Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert J. Nelson, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kirk C. Jenkins, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP, Chicago, IL, for the appellee.