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The nation's foremost aviation law expert provides complete exposition of the law, remedies, and trial techniques.
• Examination of discovery procedures, settlement techniques, and jurisdictional problems
• Treatment of the liabilities of airlines, private aircraft owners and operators, lessors, aviation maintenance and repair companies, crashworthiness, and class actions in aviation disaster cases
• Analysis of the legal effects of the Warsaw Convention, the Montreal Agreement, the Hague
• Protocol, the Federal Aviation Act, and the Death on the High Seas Act
• Also includes state products liability and wrongful death statutes
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Table of contents
Publication Table of Contents
VOLUME 1
Chapter 1 Special Considerations in Aviation Cases
Chapter 2 Liability of Airlines
Chapter 3 Liability of Owners and Operators of Private Aircraft
Chapter 4 Liability of the United States
Chapter 5 Liability of Aircraft Manufacturers
Chapter 6 Liability of Airport Owners and Operators
Chapter 7 Liability of Maintenance and Repair Companies
Chapter 8 Liability of Foreign Nations--Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act
Chapter 9 Federal Aviation Act and Regulations
Chapter 10 International Transportation
Chapter 11-12 [Reserved]
VOLUME 2
Chapter 13 Wrongful Death Law
Chapter 14 Maritime Aviation Accidents
Chapter 15 Punitive Damages in Aviation Cases
Chapter 16 Choice of Law
Chapter 17 Jurisdiction and Venue
Chapter 18 Consolidation, Multidistrict and Multiforum Litigation, Collateral Estoppel, and Class Actions
Chapter 19 National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Investigations and Use as Evidence
Chapter 20 Independent Private Investigations in Civil Airline Crashes
Chapter 21 Military Aircraft Accident Investigations and Litigation
Chapter 22 Commencing The Action: Venue, Court, Judge and Jury
Chapter 23 Drafting the Complaint
Chapter 24 Discovery in Civil Aviation Cases
Chapter 25 Experts
Chapter 26 Settlement
Chapter 27 Trial Considerations
Chapter 28 Demonstrative Evidence
Appendix
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
PRIMARY SOURCE PAMPHLET
Warsaw Convention
The Hague Protocol
Montreal Agreement
Montreal Convention of 1999
General Aviation Revitalization Act
Airline Deregulation Act of 1978
Death on the High Seas Act
Federal Tort Claims Act
Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act
Freedom of Information Act
Statutes and Regulations Concerning September 11, 2001
Wrongful Death Statutes by Jurisdiction
State Statutes Concerning Aviation
Products Liability Statutes