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People stand near a memorial commemorating the victims of the Germanwings Airbus A320 crash in the village of Le Vernet, southeastern France, on April 6, 2015.
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Eighty families of those who died in last year’s Germanwings crash that killed 150 people when a jet was deliberately flown into a French mountainside are looking to a U.S. court for justice.
For the passengers’ loved ones left behind when Andreas Lubitz committed suicide by flying a Lufthansa-owned Airbus A320 into a French mountain, U.S. District Court appears to be the best venue for the kind of robust damages they say could force the airline to change its medical-screening practices.