This column reports on several significant, representative decisions handed down recently in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Chief Judge Dora L. Irizarry dismissed civil rights and related claims by international airline passengers because they were preempted by the Montreal Convention. Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto ordered a severance in a two-defendant criminal case to prevent the risk of severe prejudice to one of the defendants. And Judge Frederic Block ruled on various claims in an action for damages under the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990.
Preemption: Montreal Convention
In Alam v. American Airlines Group, 16 CV 251 (EDNY, March 17, 2017), Chief Judge Irizarry found civil rights and other claims by international airline passengers to be preempted by the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air (the Montreal Convention).
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