Airline law and software claims
Julio del Rio v. CrowdStrike
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Julio del Rio and others say CrowdStrike and its parent developed defective cybersecurity software that disrupted businesses, including air travel, and seek damages under state law.
- What's at stake
- The damages claims remain unresolved; the Supreme Court has not decided whether the Airline Deregulation Act bars them.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
Their petition asks whether the Airline Deregulation Act bars those claims; it remains pending and has been distributed for a conference, but the Supreme Court has not agreed to hear it.
The petition asks whether the federal Airline Deregulation Act can block state-law claims against an independent software vendor that does not serve airline passengers or have a commercial relationship with them.
Question presented
Whether the Airline Deregulation Act ’s preemption of claims “ related to a . . . service of an air carrier ” extends to claims arising from an independent third-party software vendor ’s development of defective software when the third-party vendor does not transport passengers, does not provide services to passengers, and has no commercial relationship with airline passengers.
What happens next
The petition was distributed for the Court’s Nov. 6, 2026, conference. The next step is whether the Court agrees to hear it; the distribution does not guarantee a grant or an order date.
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