July 31, 2025
The Eleventh Circuit has sent back to lower court a Miami man's suit claiming that American Airlines illegally benefited when using a Havana airport he says the Cuban government stole from his family in 1959.
June 30, 2022
A judge on Thursday dismissed a federal lawsuit filed by a Miami man who accused American Airlines Inc. of illegally benefiting from use of an airport he said the Cuban government stole from his family in 1959.
May 23, 2022
A Miami man accusing American Airlines of benefiting from an airport allegedly stolen from his family by the Cuban government was not a U.S. national when he acquired the airport, a Florida federal magistrate judge said in recommending the lawsuit's dismissal.
February 25, 2022
A Miami man suing American Airlines Inc. over its use of Cuba's main airport — which he claims the Castro regime stole from his family — argued Friday that a Florida federal court erred when it found in a similar case that claimants needed to have U.S. citizenship by 1996 to be able to bring such claims under the Helms-Burton Act.
April 06, 2020
A Florida federal judge agreed with American Airlines on Monday that the coronavirus outbreak warrants pausing a suit accusing the carrier and Chile's LATAM Airlines of illegally profiting from Cuba's main international airport, rejecting the plaintiff's objections to a stay.
March 17, 2020
American Airlines pointed to a recent decision dismissing litigation accusing Amazon and a Cuban charcoal importer of illegally trafficking property confiscated by the Fidel Castro regime as evidence that a similar suit relating to a Cuban airport should be tossed.
March 04, 2020
A Florida federal judge on Wednesday became the fourth judge to issue a recusal in a Miami man's lawsuit claiming American Airlines and Chile's LATAM Airlines illegally profited from the use of Cuba's José Martí International Airport, saying she discovered she had represented the plaintiff in a related case.
November 27, 2019
American Airlines and Chile's LATAM Airlines have called for the grounding of a Miami man's Helms-Burton Act lawsuit over their use of Cuba's José Martí International Airport, which he claims to rightfully own, raising arguments over an exception in the law for "lawful travel" and challenging the law's constitutionality.
September 25, 2019
American Airlines Inc. and Chilean airline LATAM Airlines were hit with a Helms-Burton Act lawsuit Wednesday by a Miami man who claims to be the rightful owner of Cuba's José Martí International Airport and says the airlines trafficked in stolen property by operating flights there.