October 31, 2022
An Illinois federal judge said Monday that pilots have overreached both in their bid to recover damages for their purportedly diminished careers by claiming Boeing duped the international aviation community about the 737 Max jets, and in their repeat attempt to have the judge recuse himself from the case.
October 24, 2022
A second bid by pilots for a replacement judge in an Illinois federal case against Boeing related to the safety of 737 Max jets is a "baseless effort" to attack the court's integrity, the company said in a filing Friday.
October 20, 2022
Pilots said an Illinois federal judge who was previously with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Kirkland & Ellis LLP cannot impartially oversee their case alleging Boeing duped the international aviation community about the 737 Max jets, so a new judge must be assigned to the case.
June 22, 2020
Pilots told an Illinois federal judge Friday that Boeing can't escape liability for defrauding the international aviation community by heralding its 737 Max jets as safe when they were anything but, claiming pilots who've trained on the now-grounded jets have had their careers destroyed.
March 11, 2020
An Illinois federal judge said Wednesday his former work at Kirkland & Ellis LLP doesn't merit recusing himself from a suit against firm client Boeing brought by pilots who say problems with the 737 Max dinged their earnings.
March 09, 2020
Boeing urged an Illinois federal judge to toss proposed class claims from pilots who safely flew 737 Max jets and were never harmed, saying their far-fetched theories of tort liability flout the law, while the pilots insisted Monday that the judge should recuse himself from the case.
February 28, 2020
A Kirkland & Ellis LLP team defending Boeing against a lawsuit from pilots who say the woes of the 737 Max dinged their earnings told a former colleague on the federal bench in Illinois Friday that he need not recuse himself just because he was once a Kirkland attorney.
January 17, 2020
An Illinois federal judge ruled that international pilots can't anonymously sue Boeing for allegedly misrepresenting the safety of its 737 Max jets, ordering the pilots be unmasked before they can press ahead with consolidated litigation seeking lost wages from the grounded jets.
November 13, 2019
Boeing told an Illinois federal judge Tuesday that international pilots have no legal grounds to collectively sue the aerospace giant for lost wages by claiming Boeing misrepresented the safety of its 737 Max jets, which have been grounded since March following two fatal crashes.