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The Legal Wire
Former Lufthansa GC joins CMS Germany in dedicated AI pricing role
CMS Germany has appointed Matthias Langbehn, formerly general counsel at Lufthansa airline for 18 years, to reshape the firm’s approach to pricing legal services in the AI era. His mandate…
NIPC Law
Account of Profits – Lufthansa Technik v Astronics
By janelambertnipclaw-blogspot-com
Lufthansa Technik's Hangar at Frankfurt AirportAuthor Franzffm Licence CC BY-SA 3.0 Source Wikimedia Commons Jane LambertPatents Court (Mr Justice Leech) Lufthansa Technik AG v Astronics Advanced Electronic Systems and Another [2025]…
Transportation Law: Moving Forward
Caution for Global Carriers: Specific Personal Jurisdiction Expanded in Doe v. Lufthansa
By Rebecca Baden Chaney, Branden Nikka, Kendyl Barnholtz
The Ninth Circuit’s opinion in Doe v. Lufthansa expands district courts’ jurisdiction over foreign airlines. The plaintiffs, a married same-sex couple, booked round-trip flights from Saudi Arabia to San Francisco…
Cleary Antitrust Watch
Laudamotion v. Commission—Case T-1026/23
By Vladimir Novak, Thomas Verheyden, Devi Bragalini
On October 1, 2025, the General Court dismissed Laudamotion’s application for annulment of the European Commission’s (“Commission”) decision rejecting a complaint that Lufthansa’s concurrent acquisition of flight slots previously held…
Inside Class Actions
Fee-versal of Fortune
By Hunter Bjazevich, Sonya Winner
The Ninth Circuit in Maree v. Deutsche Lufthansa A.G., No. 23-55795, 2025 WL 2268254 (9th Cir. Aug. 8, 2025) recently vacated and remanded a district court’s approval of a class…
Religion Clause
Lufthansa Fined $4M For Discrimination Against Jewish Passengers Flying On Pilgrimage To Hungary
On Oct. 7, a Consent Cease-and-Desist Order (full text) was issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation imposing civil penalties of $4 million on the air carrier Lufthansa for religious…
ComplexDiscovery
Record Fine and Renewed Commitment: Lufthansa’s $4 Million Wake-Up Call
By Rob Robinson
Editor’s Note: In a landmark decision, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has imposed a $4 million fine on Lufthansa for discriminatory practices, stemming from a 2022 incident that denied…
Cleary Antitrust Watch
Lufthansa/ITA: A New Era of Stringent Airline Merger Remedies
By Charlotte Holderied, Camilla Cozzani, Charlotte Benschop
On July 3, 2024, the Commission conditionally approved Deutsche Lufthansa AG’s (“Lufthansa”) and the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance’s (“MEF”) joint control of ITA Airways (“ITA”). [1] The approval…
Cleary Antitrust Watch
EU General Court Strikes Down Commission Decisions Authorizing EUR 7 Billion State Aid to Lufthansa and SAS
By François-Charles Laprévote, David Pérez de Lamo
On May 10, 2023, the General Court annulled two Commission decisions authorizing a total of EUR 7 billion recapitalization aid granted during the COVID-19 pandemic to air carriers Lufthansa and…
eDiscovery Today Blog
All Search Term Results for Meeting Protocols Are Proportional, Court Rules: eDiscovery Case Law
By Doug Austin
In the case In re Lufthansa Technick AG, Washington District Judge John C. Coughenor granted Lufthansa’s motion to compel regarding all search term results for meeting protocol documentation and supplementing…