On June 18, 2014, District Court Judge John A. Tharp of the Northern District of Illinois decided the last of six separate motions filed by airline defendants to dismiss a…
On February 12, 2014, Judge Thomas M. Durkin became the third district court judge to hold that U.S. courts cannot enforce so-called “direct claims” brought under European Union Regulation EU…
Since the enactment of the Airline Deregulation Act1 (“ADA”), there has been no shortage of litigation involving federal preemption based on the ADA’s prohibition against states “enact[ing] or enforc[ing] a…
On October 16, 2013, Delta Air Lines obtained a favorable ruling in Volodarskiy v. Delta,1 when Judge Edmond Chang dismissed the plaintiffs’ cause of action for a direct violation of…
There are two new developments to report in the ongoing EU 2611 class action cases currently pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. On…
Building on two other recent decisions addressing the enforceability of arbitration clauses in consumer contracts, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 30, 2013, that the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) does…
On March 13, 2013, the European Commission released proposed amendments to Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 (hereafter “EC 261”),1 which governs the rights of passengers in the event of a cancelled…
In 2004, the European Council and Parliament enacted EC 261/2004, a set of consumer protection rules designed to establish the obligations of airlines in the event of denied boarding, flight…
On March 20, 2012, the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) heard oral argument on the challenge to its interpretation of European Union Regulation EC No 261/2004 (“EC 261”) in the…
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