Rajpal
Rajpal v. Delta Air Lines, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 OPVINDER S. RAJPAL, Case No. 21-cv-05066-EMC
Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND
v. DENYING IN PART DEFENDANT’S
MOTION TO DISMISS
DELTA AIR LINES, INC., Docket No. 9 Defendant.
12 13 For the following reasons, the Court GRANTS in part and DENIES in part Defendant Delta Air Lines, Inc.’s (“Delta’s”) pending motion to dismiss Plaintiff Opvinder S. Rajpal’s complaint. Docket No. 9 (“Mot.”). I. BACKGROUND Plaintiff, an Indiana resident, alleges that two crewmembers manipulated carry-on luggage in an overhead compartment causing a metal water bottle to drop on his head while he was boarding a San Francisco-bound Delta flight at John F. Kennedy (JFK) airport in Queens, New York. See Docket No. 1-1 (“Compl.”) ¶¶ 1, 17–19. Plaintiff was taken to a nearby hospital after the incident. Id. ¶¶ 19–21. On May 21, 2021, Plaintiff filed a complaint in San Francisco County Superior Court1 …