Porter

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SANDRA PORTER, et al., Case No. 22-cv-04886-RFL

Plaintiffs,

ORDER GRANTING SUMMARY

v. JUDGMENT AND DENYING AS

MOOT MOTION TO STRIKE,

UNITED AIRLINES, INC., MOTION TO EXCLUDE, AND

MOTION TO AMEND RULE

Defendant. DISCLOSURES Re: Dkt. Nos. 27, 46, 47,

Engracia Figueroa, a woman with quadriplegia, passed away a few months after her wheelchair was damaged on a cross-country United Airlines flight. Sandra Porter (Figueroa’s successor in interest), Lettice Mahoney, George Porter, and LaJuana Reid (“Plaintiffs”) now bring this suit contending that United negligently damaged Figueroa’s wheelchair and that Figueroa’s use of an ill-fitting temporary replacement wheelchair caused her preexisting pressure sore to widen and become fatally infected. However, it is undisputed that Figueroa selected the ill-fitting replacement herself with her own longtime wheelchair vendor, and had declined to use United’s wheelchair vendor. There is no evidence from which a reasonable jury could infer that it would be foreseeable to United that, after her wheelchair was…