Rodriguez v. Ansett Australia Ltd.

383 F.3d 914 Adriene RODRIGUEZ, an individual, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ANSETT AUSTRALIA LTD., Defendant, and Air New Zealand Ltd. (USA), esa Air New Zealand Ltd.; Air New Zealand International, esa Air New Zealand Ltd., Defendants-Appellees. No. 02-56473. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted June 7, 2004. Filed September 3, 2004. Clay Robbins III, Magana, Cathcart & McCarthy, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant. Roderick D. Margo, Condon & Forsyth LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California; John F. Walter, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV 01-07882 JFW. Before: THOMAS G. NELSON, A. WALLACE TASHIMA, and RAYMOND C. FISHER, Circuit Judges. TASHIMA, Circuit Judge: 1 We are called upon once again to construe the meaning of the term "accident," as it is used in the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Transportation by Air, Oct. 12, 1929, 49 Stat. 3000 , T.S. No. 876 (1934), reprinted in note following 49 U.S.C. § 40105 (the "Warsaw Convention" or the "Convention"). We hold that neither the plaintiff's…