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Some Comments On Burdell V. Canadian Pacific Airlines, Andreas F. Lowenfeld

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Frank Burdell was the Far Eastern representative of an American heavy-equipment company, stationed in Singapore. At the end of February 1966, Burdell traveled to Tokyo on a Singapore-Bangkok-Hong Kong-Tokyo and return ticket, purchased in Singapore from Cathay Pacific but using Canadian Pacific Airlines for the Hong Kong--Tokyo portion of the journey. Canadian Pacific's flight 402 from Hong Kong to Tokyo on March 4, 1966, arrived over Tokyo in a fog, circled for about an hour, finally came in to land, and crashed into the rear wall at the end of the runway killing its crew of ten and all but …

Admiralty--Punitive Damages Awarded, P. B. S., J. V. K., W. E. H.

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Admiralty--Punitive Damages Awarded under the Jones Act

P.B.S.

Subpoena of Documents Located in Foreign Jurisdictions Where Compliance Subjects Witness to Civil or Criminal Sanctions in Foreign State

J.V.K.

Release of American Serviceman to Foreign Court for Trial is not Violative of Due Process Where Substantial United States Constitutional Guarantees are Provided by Foreign Court

W. E. H.