"[6.] And the court held that plaintiffs adequately alleged negligent infliction of emotional distress, on the theory that Lufthansa had breached "a duty to avoid discriminating against its customers" by "not sufficiently monitoring, supervising, training and educating its employees concerning the sensitivity of private and confidential information and the probable impact on those victimized by failure to adhere to those standards."
I'm not sure that it's right in this instance, even under California choice-of-law principles, to apply California law to actions by a foreign company in a foreign country; but obviously the court thought it was right.
Donald Putterman (Putterman | Yu | Wang LLP) represents plaintiffs."
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