Court Opinion

ID: 9451030
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 17:03:53.513141+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:32.514230
License: Public Domain

FAHY, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
I concur in the opinion of Judge McGowan for the court that the forum law regarding damages for wrongful death occurring in the District of Columbia does not govern this case, and that the Brazilian limitation of recoverable damages applies. However, were it not for the fact that plaintiff seems to concede that should the District of Columbia limitation not apply the limitation found in the Brazil Air Code governs the amount of recovery, I would leave the amount of recovery open for determination upon the basis of more ample information as to what the Brazilian law, as applied by the courts of Brazil, would permit to be recovered in this case.