Aircraft Crash Litigation: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, on S. 3305 and S. 3306, Part 1

Front Cover
Considers S. 3305 and S. 3306, to provide for exclusive Federal jurisdiction and a body of uniform law for litigation involving persons killed or injured through the operation of aircraft.
 

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 150 - Court pursuant to statutory authority, the privilege of a witness, person, government, State, or political subdivision thereof shall be governed by the principles of the common law as they may be interpreted by the courts of the United States in the light of reason and experience.
Page 103 - Hart, The Relations Between State and Federal Law, 54 Colum. L. Rev. 489...
Page 124 - That the recovery in such suit shall be a fair and just compensation for the pecuniary loss sustained by the persons for whose benefit the suit is brought and shall be apportioned among them by the court in proportion to the loss they may severally have suffered by reason of the death of the person by whose representative the suit is brought.
Page 73 - In suits at common law, the right of trial by Jury shall be preserved.
Page 7 - ... between a place in any State of the United States, or the District of Columbia, and a place in any other State of the United States, or the District of Columbia; or between places in the same State of the United States through the airspace over any place outside thereof; or between places in the same territory or possession of the United States, or the District of Columbia. Interstate air transportation...
Page 73 - In a concluding footnote the court stated that the work-product doctrine "is not applicable to administrative summonses issued under 26 USC §7602." Id., at 1228, n. 13. II Federal Rule of Evidence 501 provides that "the privilege of a witness . . . shall be governed by the principles of the common law as they may be interpreted by the courts of the United States in light of reason and experience.
Page 53 - The United States of America is hereby declared to possess and exercise complete and exclusive national sovereignty in the air space above the United States, including the air space above all inland waters and the air space above those portions of the adjacent marginal high seas, bays, and lakes, over which by international law or treaty or convention the United States exercises national jurisdiction.
Page 1 - aircraft" means any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used, or designed for navigation of or flight in the air, except a parachute or other contrivance designed for such navigation but used primarily as safety equipment.
Page 125 - The district courts shall have original jurisdiction, exclusive of the courts of the States, of: 1. Any civil case of admiralty or maritime jurisdiction, saving to suitors in all cases all other remedies to which they are otherwise entitled.
Page 7 - An Act authorizing suits against the United States in admiralty for damage caused by and salvage service rendered to public vessels belonging to the United States, and for other purposes", approved March 3, 1925 (46 USC 781-790), as implemented by section 7730 of title 10, United States Code.

Bibliographic information