Families of Boeing Crash Victims Can Challenge U.S. Settlement, Judge Rules
A federal judge in Texas on Friday handed a significant victory to relatives of the victims of two deadly Boeing 737 Max crashes who are seeking to overturn a $2.5 billion legal settlement between Boeing and the Justice Department and to pursue criminal charges against the company.
In a strongly worded ruling, Judge Reed O’Connor wrote that “the court finds that the tragic loss of life that resulted from the two airplane crashes was a reasonably foreseeable consequence of Boeing’s conspiracy to defraud the United States.” That being the case, he said, the 346 people who were killed in the crashes in 2018 and 2019 qualify as “crime victims” under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act. ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/busi ... ctims.html
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