Today Judge Reed O'Connor (U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas) granted the Justice Department's motion to dismiss the pending criminal charge against Boeing. In his order, Judge O'Connor essentially agreed with many of the factual objections that I have made for the families who lost loved ones because of Boeing's crime. But, reluctantly, Judge O'Connor dismissed the charge, concluding that he lacked a legal basis for blocking the Department's ill-conceived non-prosecution plan. On behalf of my clients, I will quickly be seeking review of this ruling by the Fifth Circuit. It is hard to understand how a dismissal that is so clearly contrary to the manifest public interest can be upheld.

I've blogged about the Boeing criminal case a number of times before, including here

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