Lynne Kritter v. Brent Mooring
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June 04, 2025
Full 4th Circ. Asked To Rethink Copter Pilot's Death Suit
Farmers accused of negligently allowing a crop-dusting pilot to fly into a steel cable stretched across a property are urging the full Fourth Circuit to release them from a lawsuit filed by the pilot's widow, arguing that, as nonpilots, they had no way of foreseeing aerial hazards.
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May 20, 2025
4th Circ. Says Suit Over Copter Pilot's Death Must Go To Jury
The Fourth Circuit has reinstated a lawsuit by the widow of a crop-dusting pilot who crashed after his helicopter became tangled in a steel cable stretched over the property, ruling in a published opinion issued Monday that a jury must be the one to decide whether the landlord should have known that the wire posed a danger to the pilot.