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Laker Airways Ltd. v. Pan American World Airways, Inc. 604 F.Supp. 280

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

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American Journal of International Law , Volume 79 , Issue 4 , October 1985 , pp. 1069 - 1071
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1985

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References

1 See 604 F.Supp. 280, 283 (emphasis added) (referring to the order accompanying the court’s opinion in Laker Airways Ltd. v. Pan American World Airways, 559 F.Supp. 1124 (D.D.C. 1983), aff’d, 731 F.2d 909 (1984), summarized in 78 AJIL 666 (1984)).

2 British Airways Board v. Laker Airways Ltd., [1983] 3 W.L.R. 544 (C.A.).

3 British Airways Board v. Laker Airways Ltd., [1984] 3 W.L.R. 413 (H.L.), summarized in 79 AJIL 141 (1985).

4 604 F.Supp. at 287.

5 Id. at 290 (footnote omitted) (emphasis in original).

6 GA Res. 217A, UN Doc. A810, at 71 (1948).

7 Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe: Final Act, 73 Dep’t st. Bull. 323 (1975), reprinted in 14 ILM 1292 (1975).

8 Laker Airways Ltd. v. Sabena, Belgian World Airlines, 731 F.2d 909 (D.C. Cir. 1984), summarized in 78 AJIL 666 (1984). The court of appeals had been unpersuaded by defendants’ previous pleas of comity, burdened as they were with the failure of the UK courts to accord comity to the actions of the U.S. courts.

9 604 F.Supp. at 294.