GPT on Question 48, Sep 14

Is Varghese v. China Southern Airlines Co., Ltd., 925 F.3d 1339 (11th Cir. 2019) still good law? Quote its holding for me.

Yes. Varghese remains binding Eleventh Circuit precedent; it has not been vacated or overruled. The Supreme Court denied certiorari.

Its central holding was:

“We hold that the Montreal Convention’s two-year limitations period is not subject to equitable tolling.”

Varghese v. China Southern Airlines Co., 925 F.3d 1339, 1348 (11th Cir. 2019).

Thus, within the Eleventh Circuit, a claim governed by the Montreal Convention is extinguished if it is not brought within Article 35’s two-year period, even when ordinary equitable-tolling principles might otherwise apply.

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Yes. **Varghese remains binding Eleventh Circuit precedent**; it has not been vacated or overruled. The Supreme Court denied certiorari.
Its central holding was:
> “We hold that the Montreal Convention’s two-year limitations period is not subject to equitable tolling.”
*Varghese v. China Southern Airlines Co.*, 925 F.3d 1339, 1348 (11th Cir. 2019).
Thus, within the Eleventh Circuit, a claim governed by the Montreal Convention is extinguished if it is not brought within Article 35’s two-year period, even when ordinary equitable-tolling principles might otherwise apply.

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