District Court, C.D. California February 23, 1976, MDL No. 172 (In re Paris Air Crash)

*328MEMORANDUM ORDER ON PUNITIVE DAMAGES

PEIRSON M. HALL, Senior District Judge.

The cases filed for the claimants in about half of the 338 deaths arising out of the Paris air crash and pending in this court have refused to waive punitive damages. Statutory law, section 3294 of the California Civil Code; and the case law, Pease v. Beech Aircraft Corp., 38 Cal.App.3d 450, 113 Cal.Rptr.