Posted on 12/05/2003 11:43:40 AM PST by struwwelpeter
I read about this in the article at the top, but I don't understand why a U.S. Federal court would have any jurisdiction in the case. I have always been under the impression that international flights of this sort would be subject to international law, not U.S. law.
It sounds odd, but liability limits on a flight will change depending on where the incident occurs. An incident that occurs outside U.S. airspace would be subject to either foreign laws, or to maritime law (which, I believe, has the most stringent liability limits of them all).
For some reason, wherever an American butt is planted during an accident, whether on a British ship or a Korean airliner, US courts have to have their say.
OTOH, imagine a corporation doing business in Canada, endangering or killing Canadian citizens, and having assets in Canada as well. Wouldn't Canadian courts try to see that their citizens received a fair shake as well?
I hadn't given much thought to the HF angle, I'm sort of in an SSB and multichannel rut. One of these days I'll have to give the "ditty chasers" the respect they deserve.
Let's just say, without going through all the details, that the odds are very much against it. And even knowing the weaknesses of Occam's Razor, it is very difficult not to apply it in this case.
Perhaps you should find a lawyer and take a shot at "life's lottery" now that the odds are in your favor (as long is you are not sure that an "evil corporation" did not kill her.
If I was interested in playing "life's lottery", I could have taken any number of other opportunities to do so. I suppose I could have blamed the tobacco industry (she had been a smoker) or the food industry (she had gained wait after she quit smoking) but those things normally don't kill 39 year-old women and, at best, contributed to, but did not cause, her death.
You might, this very evening, undergo a sudden recovery of your "long lost memory as to the events of that day."
I've got pretty clear memories of that day, actually, and of quite a few days before her death despite the fact that I'm almost the same age she was when she died. I never went through the 4 initial phases of grief that people are supposed to go through and accepted her death pretty much immediately, probably because of how my father, who was always pretty honest with me, reacted to her death. And given how my father and family (including childless aunts and an uncle) raised me, I can't really complain about my childhood. What I think I probably missed out the most from was that my mother had been a computer programmer in the 1960s (against the odds -- they gave her the logic test on a lark because the men in her office were having trouble passing it and she was very smart) and she was one of the only people in my family I could have talked "shop" with about computers. None of the rest of them are computer people.
Yet in all seriousness, I am very sad to hear of such a loss, and as it was your loss, and I pray that some tender happiness came your way, soon. God bless.
I appreciate your best wishes but I was otherwise a quite happy child who was well taken care of by a loving family. My point is not to find sympathy but simply to point out that I live in a world that doesn't demand that every death have an important reason. Elaine Pagels talks about this in one of her books on early Christianity where she describes blaming herself for the loss of her child, even though there was nothing she could have done to change that death. She said that it was easier to blame herself than to face the possibility that the death was random and uncontrollable. Random death scares people even more than conspiracies do. I had to face random death at a very young age in a very personal way. I'm not entirely comfortable with it but I also don't try to escape it as a common explanation for why people die in unusual and sometimes even horrible ways.
You'd have to alter the strength of the Earth's gravity field.
Flight originated or terminated in United States = case gets tried in United States.
From north Africa and the Mediterranean, B-17's with 15kw transmitters were used.
In films of the era, you'll see B-25 and B-25 bombers on raids, and among them on the way out, a B-17 that would turn for home before entering the target area.
Though I also understand that on a few occasions, the B-17's went along for the whole raid and broadcast the raid "live."
Heard inside the Pentagon, by a few listeners.
Glad to hear that you survived well enough.
I don't find working on computers stressful. It's the dealing with the people part that's stressful. :-) From what I've heard, my mother was a "natural programmer", something I most certainly inherited from her.
Glad to hear that you survived well enough.
A loving extended family helped a lot. A whole lot.
Not if the law specifically laid out the terms for liability in an incident outside Canada's jurisdiction.
There's actually a case in which this would have applied, and I'll do some research to see how it was resolved. It involved the bombing of an Air India flight out of Vancouver some years ago.
Based on what -- a U.S. court decision along these lines?
This would then mean that international maritime law would be overriden by U.S. law -- even in cases involving an oceangoing freighter flying under a foreign flag that just happened to make a port call in the U.S. I don't think that's the case at all. How much of those "unlimited damages" assessed against KAL ever got paid out in claims?
"International maritime law" is United States law.
And willful misconduct by a vessel's owner (not the master, the owner) that results in death or injury isn't limited in liability, anyway.
I recognize the M.O. This was an Arkanside.
Maybe. Maybe not.
IIRC, neither Bush Sr nor Bob Dole was ever a governor.
McDonald had a lot of things going for him. He was very photogenic and articulate. Also, he was quite popular and had a lot of strong supporters (both individuals and groups).
Unfortunately, we'll never know.
But my point remains that he still posed a threat to the enemies of the Constitution.
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