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Litigation

Mar. 14, 2000

Family of Crash Victim Sue Airline

Just one day after the U.S. Senate voted to amend an 80-year-old maritime law that limits awards of monetary damages to families of commercial-airline crash victims , a wrongful-death lawsuit was filed Friday by the family of a Mexican woman who perished when Alaska Airlines Flight 261 plunged into the Pacific Ocean.

By Denise Levin
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        Just one day after the U.S. Senate voted to amend an 80-year-old maritime law that limits awards of monetary damages to families of commercial-airline crash victims , a wrongful-death lawsuit was filed Friday by the family of a Mexican woman who perished when Alaska Airlines Flight 261 plunged into the Pacific Ocean.
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