all - Opinion Summaries

SAFARI AVIATION INC. v. GARVEY

Administrative Law, Transportation
The FAA did not arbitrarily and capriciously deny Plaintiff the opportunity to participate in a meaningful rulemaking proceeding when it twice...

US v. CULLITON

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Transportation
Challenged questions prompting allegedly false statements on an FAA medical form were sufficiently confusing, vague and overbroad as to invite...

US AIR TOUR ASS'N v. FED. AVIATION ADMIN.

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Transportation
Challenges by an air tour group, to an FAA rule limiting the number of air tours permitted to fly over a national park, are rejected. Environmental...

BILYOU v DUTCHESS BEER DISTRIB., INC.

Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
A beverage distribution driver's employment was exempt, under the motor carrier exemption, from the overtime requirement of the Fair Labor Standards...

JAMES N. KIRBY, PTY LTD. v. NORFOLK S. RY. CO.

Admiralty, Commercial Law, Contracts, Transportation
Railroad's liability to a shipper for damage done to goods by train derailment is not limited by a "Himalaya clause" in two bills of lading, where the...

JACKSON v. ILLINOIS-MEDICAR, INC.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law, Transportation
Claim for unconstitutional denial of medical care to a pretrial detainee is not actionable, where provider of transportation services had no authority...

TORBET v. UNITED AIRLINES, INC.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Transportation
A random search at an airport security checkpoint, of a carry-on bag that has passed through an x-ray scan without arousing suspicion that the bag...

MCCABE v. AM. HONDA MOTOR CO., INC.

Injury & Tort Law, Transportation, Product Liability
Plaintiff raised triable issues as to whether a car airbag is the kind of product about which consumers can form minimum safety expectations under the...

ILLINOIS CENT. R.R. CO. v. MAYEUX

Property Law & Real Estate, Transportation
A genuine factual dispute exists over whether expropriation of a strip of private property, for the purpose of building a rail spur to a chemical...

MADDOX v. AM. AIRLINES, INC.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies, Transportation
District court did not err in applying Arkansas choice-of-law rules to the issue of prejudgment interest in a personal injury suit after an airline...