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IN RE PAN AMERICAN CORP.

No. 262, Docket 91-5037.

950 F.2d 839 (1991)

In re PAN AMERICAN CORPORATION; Pan American World Airways, Inc.; Pan American Express, Incorporated; Pan American Shuttle, Incorporated; PAA Corporation; Pan American Commercial Services, Incorporated; Allmat International, Incorporated; Alert Management Systems, Incorporated, Debtors. Thomas COKER; Hans Frank Rosenkranz; Marina De Larracoechea Azumendi; Georgia Nucci; Cherry Pierce; Bernadette Mary Concannon; Rosemary Stevenson; Thomas Henry O'Gara; Anne O'Gara; Barry J. Valentino, Sr.; Alan Joseph Jones; Rosemary Lillian Jones; Michael Hourihan; John Thomas Bacciochi; David William Owen; Mary Elizabeth Thomas; Patricia Mary Booth; Jerichem Rubin; Herbert Swire; Jane Valerie Swire; Paul Aicher; John Frederick Mosey; Katia Cadman; Barry John Flick; Rizziero Dinardo; G. Edward Morgan, Jr.; Stanley Maslowski; Mack Saunders; Joseph L. Tobin, Jr.; John Berkley; Jean Berkley; Patrick F. Noonan; Nancy Noonan; Susan Gannon; M. Victoria Diaz Cummock; Robert P. Berrell; Sara S. Berrell; Chester D. Phillips; Gheorghina Vulcu; Shirley M. Lincoln; Ronald Boulanger; Jeannine Boulanger; Richard E. Mack; Allen Benello; John M. Cory; Doris M. Cory; Anthony J. Cardwell; Barbara A. Cardwell; Adelaide M. Marek; Maggie Boatman; Carol McCollum; Peter M. McCarthy; Richard Miazga; Anna Maria Miazga; M.S. Shastri; Shanthi Shastri; Garth Gallagher; Trudy Ann Felicia Peters, a minor; Roy Burman; Linda Ruth Burman; Clark Phillips; Caroline S. Sneed; Douglas Phillips; Eva Lorraine Merrill, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS, INC.; Pan Am World Services, Inc.; Alert Management Systems, Incorporated, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 3, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Sharp, Washington, D.C. (Shea & Gardner, of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

Joel S. Perwin, Miami, Fla. (Podhurst, Orseck, Josefberg, Eaton, Meadow, Olin & Perwin, P.A., of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before CARDAMONE, WALKER and McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges.

BACKGROUND

McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge:

This case arises out of a series of events that are as notorious as they are tragic. On December 21, 1988, Pan Am flight 103 en route to New York's Kennedy Airport crashed at Lockerbie, Scotland, killing everyone on board, including numerous college students heading home for the holidays. Wrongful death actions were filed in various federal and state courts. Pursuant to an order of the Judicial Panel on Multi-district...

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