Boeing Asks Texas Supreme Court for Rehearing in SWAPA Case

The Boeing Company has asked the Texas Supreme Court to reconsider a decision that cleared the way for Southwest Airlines Pilots Association, a 9,000-member labor union, to proceed with a lawsuit alleging the company cost it millions of dollars via its false representations about the airworthiness of the 737 MAX aircraft.

In May, the Texas Supreme Court denied review in the case, allowing a Mach 2022 ruling from the Fifth Court of Appeals in Dallas to stand. That ruling revived the lawsuit, but Boeing argued in its motion for rehearing filed Wednesday that it also “makes Texas a national outlier on conflict preemption under the federal Railway Labor Act.”