Aviation Happenings- Spring 2016

The spring edition of the Aviation Group’s newsletter examines some of the most recent and relevant cases and developments in aviation law, including:

• Medical Emergencies May Become Accidents or Not
• Attacking the Drone Slayer: Property Rights and Preemption in the Cases against William Merideth
• U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act Amends Existing Commercial Space Flight Law and Creates Important New Rights
• District of Columbia and Seventh Circuit Hold that NTSB Factual and Probable Cause Reports are not Subject to Judicial Review
• Eastern District of California Finds California Anti-Discrimination Statutes Preempted by ACAA
• The Rules They Are A-Changin’
• Criminal Charges for Intoxication and Flight Crew Interference on a Southwest Airlines Flight Appealed to the Fifth Circuit
• Fifth Circuit Holds Failure to Place a Disembarking Passenger in a Wheelchair Not to be a Warsaw Convention “Accident”
• Federal District Court in Chicago Applies Daimler General Jurisdiction Standard to Foreign Multinational Corporation in Multiparty, Multiforum Trial Jurisdiction Act Case
• Middle District of Tennessee Holds Contractor Not Liable for Army Helicopter Pilot’s Paralysis and Confirms Continuing Viability of Government Contractor Defense
• Fourth Circuit Affirms Enforcement of Oral Settlement Agreement Made Prior to Release

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