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The Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently upheld a defense judgment in a 401(k) employer stock case following a bench trial on breach of fiduciary claims. The appellate [...]

In this term of the United States Supreme Court, two employment policies met head-on and scattered the justices into several different camps. The case was US Airways v. Barnett, 122 [...]

Last March, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor complained that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is frustratingly vague. The act leaves 'uncertainties as to what Congress had in mind,' [...]

The main issue that Delta Air Lines and US Airways are citing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia against the FAA placing conditions on their proposed swapping of slots between Reagan Washington National and New York LaGuardia airports is that of property rights. Some of the other reasons being cited for removing the restriction placed by the FAA are highlighted.

Byline: Edward Russell âThe US Department of Justice's (DOJ) challenge of American Airlines and US Airways' proposed merger is moving forward, with a district court judge setting additional hearing dates [...]

briefing government bids to block us-aa merger tie-up American Airlines' proposed merger with US Airways has been threatened by the US Department of Justice, which has submitted a 56-page lawsuit [...]

Byline: Allison Bell The U.S. Supreme Court today decided 5-4 that a federal court can use equitable law principles when a group health plan contract governed by the Employee Retirement [...]

Byline: Cathleen Flahardy Orbitz Worldwide Inc. and American Airlines (AA) have ended their two-year battle over travel distribution costs and methods. The two companies entered into a settlement, details of [...]

Byline: Kimberly Atkins The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to decide who should foot the attorney's bill when an accident victim's medical expenses are covered by an ERISA plan, [...]

Byline: Andrea Davis The Supreme Court heard arguments in December in U.S. Airways v. McCutchen, a case that raises the issue of whether a benefit plan administrator is entitled to [...]

Mark Pestronk is a Washington-based lawyer specializing in travel law. Q: Last month, a federal judge in Texas dismissed all but one of American Airlines' antitrust claims against Sabre and [...]

US Airways sued Sabre, seeking monetary damages and an end to what it called 'anticompetitive and anticonsumer practices.' US Airways said Sabre engages in 'a pattern of exclusionary conduct to [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2011 M2 COMMUNICATIONS US Airways (NYSE:LCC) announced yesterday that it has filed a federal civil antitrust lawsuit in the Southern District of New York against Sabre Holdings Corp. [...]

Six Muslim clerics who were forced off a flight in Minneapolis amidst terrorist concerns have settled their lawsuit against an airport, airline and law enforcement agency. They called the settlement, [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A federal court in Phoenix, Arizona, has found the US Airline Pilots Association (USAPA), a union that represents all US Airways pilots, liable in [...]

What's a missing Xbox worth? Would you believe $1 million? According to cincinnati.com, Yale University junior Jesse Maiman had packed an Xbox in his checked baggage on a December flight [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has said that six imams, or Islamic religious leaders, removed from a US Airways flight in Minneapolis in [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The US Airways and America West units of the Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA) have filed a lawsuit in the United States District [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD An altercation on board US Airways Flight 1494 ended in a woman being charged with sexual assault yesterday (4 October). According to Conan Bruce, [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A lawsuit filed by US Airways pilots against the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp has been ordered to be dismissed by a United States federal [...]

A RECENT RULING by the Virginia Supreme Court barring an airline from essentially recovering for losses twice under federal assistance and its insurance policies is sensible, but it raises some [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The US-based Air Line Pilots Association has filed an objection to a provision in the proposed merger between US Airways and America West. The [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A US bankruptcy judge on Thursday (31 March) gave US Airways time until 31 May to file a reorganization plan without interference from its [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD US Airways and its machinists' union were set for a court appearance today (6 January). The International Association of Machinists is the only group [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The FBI is investigating damage to three US Airways jets, two of which were apparently damaged at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport. A spokesperson for the [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The Bankruptcy Court judge overseeing US Airways' case has left the airline waiting for a decision over an emergency 23% pay cut on all [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD US Airways has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time in two years after it failed to reach an agreement over [...]

A DECISION is expected this week on whether US Airways will be allowed to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection at the end of the month. A US court will [...]

Byline: Staff The New Orleans Aviation Board voted to accept an offer from U.S. Airways to pay $750,191 in landing fees it owes to Louis Armstrong International Airport over a [...]

Old tools Having failed to secure a federal loan guarantee in time, USAirways has fallen back on the traditional tool of filing for bankruptcy court protection. It could yet spur [...]

PHILADELPHIA-Employers must engage in an interactive effort with disabled employees-not rigidly adhere to arbitrary employment rules-when they ask to be moved to a more accommodating job, a federal appeals court [...]