Justices Dig Into Preemption Issue in Boeing, Southwest Airlines Pilots Association Case

The Texas Supreme Court on Wednesday was full of questions for lawyers on both sides of a dispute between The Boeing Company and the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association. 

Initially, in May 2024, the state’s high court had declined to disturb lower court rulings that cleared the way for SWAPA, a 9,000-member labor union, to proceed with a lawsuit alleging Boeing cost it millions of dollars because of false representations about the airworthiness of the manufacturer’s 737 MAX aircraft.