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AIR FRANCE v. SAKS

Term: 1984
Important Dates
Argued: January 15, 1985
Decided: March 4, 1985
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
8-0
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Warren Burger • Thurgood Marshall • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens • Byron White

AIR FRANCE v. SAKS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 4, 1985. The case was argued before the court on January 15, 1985.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the California Central U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: Airline
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Physically injured person, including wrongful death, who is not an employee
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 470 U.S. 392
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
Who wrote the majority opinion: Sandra Day O'Connor

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as conservative.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024

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