Williams v. the Boeing Company

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

SOLOMON WILLIAMS, 

Plaintiff, and

MARA FERRARI; RHONDA CAPPS;

KEVIN BIGLOW; DOREEN FERGUSON; No. 06-35196

BEVERLY TROTTER,

Plaintiffs-Appellants,  D.C. No.

CV-98-00761-MJP

v.

OPINION

THE BOEING COMPANY; BOEING

NORTH AMERICAN, INC., a Delaware corp.; MCDONNELL DOUGLAS

CORPORATION,

Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Marsha J. Pechman, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted January 11, 2008—Seattle, Washington

Filed February 27, 2008

Before: Robert R. Beezer, A. Wallace Tashima, and Richard C. Tallman, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Tallman

1707 1712 WILLIAMS v. THE BOEING COMPANY

COUNSEL

Steve W. Berman, Craig R. Spiegel (argued), Ivy D. Arai, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Seattle, Washington, for the appellants.

Michael Reiss (argued), David C. Tarshes, Kristina Silja Ben- nard, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Seattle, Washington, for the appellee.

OPINION

TALLMAN, Circuit Judge:

Nearly ten years ago, Plaintiffs filed suit against The Boe- ing Company…