Comair Limited v. The Boeing Company

Opinion

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINTON 9 AT SEATTLE

11 COMAIR LIMITED, Case No. 2:23-CV-00176-RSM

12 Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF COMAIR LIMITED’S MOTION TO 13 vs. FILE AN OVER-LENGTH BRIEF

14 THE BOEING COMPANY, and DOES 1 through 100, inclusive, 15 Defendants. 16

17 18 Pursuant to LCR 7(d)(1), 7(e) and 7(f), Comair Limited respectfully moves for 19 approval to file an over-length brief in opposition to The Boeing Company’s pending 20 motion for summary judgment. Comair requests an additional 1,600 words for its 21 opposition, for a total of 10,000 words. 22 Boeing filed a summary judgment motion seeking to adjudicate all six of Comair’s 23 claims and to strike one of Comair’s damages claims. The time period relevant to the 24 motion spans nearly a decade and dates back to at least 2012. The factual record is 25 extensive and involves highly technical details relating to the development and 26 certification of commercial aircraft. This will require a lengthy and detailed presentation

ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF COMAIR LIMITED’S 1 of the chronology and disputed facts. In addition to the volumes of evidence of disputed 2 facts, there are complex legal issues, including a choice-of-law analysis. A moderate 3 enlargement of the word limits applicable to the briefing will allow the parties to provide 4 a more helpful and fulsome analysis to the Court. 5 Courts in this district have previously granted similar requests. See, e.g., Zunum 6 Aero Inc. v. The Boeing Co., No. 2:21-cv-00896-JLR (Dkt. 291) (W.D. Wash. Feb. 22, 7 2024) (granting motion for over-length summary judgment briefs due to complexity of 8 claims and technical evidence in a commercial dispute); Microsoft Corp. v. Internal 9 Revenue Serv., No. 2:15-cv-00369-RSM (Dkt. 62) (W.D. Wash. Apr. 26, 2022) (granting 10 leave to file 33-page summary judgment brief); California Expanded Metal Prod. Co. v. 11 Klein, 2021 WL 4078072 (W.D. Wash. Sept. 8, 2021) (granting leave to file 50-page 12 opening brief). 13 More specifically, in another lawsuit by a Boeing customer similarly suing over 14 the grounded 737 MAX aircraft—Polskie Linie Lotnicze v. The Boeing Company (Case 15 No. 2:21-cv-01449-RSM)—Boeing also filed a summary judgment motion to adjudicate 16 all of Polskie/LOT’s claims, and this Court allowed the opposition brief to consume 17 10,000 words. [Id., Dkt. 131] 18 Similar to the Polskie/LOT case and consistent with Local Rule 7(f)(4), Comair 19 requests that Boeing be afforded additional pages for its reply brief in the total amount of 20 5,000 words. Accordingly, Comair respectfully requests the following limits: 21

22 Opposition 10,000 words 23 Reply 5,000 words 24 25 The undersigned counsel certifies that this memorandum of law contains 350 26 words and is in compliance with the Local Rules.

ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF COMAIR LIMITED’S 1 Dated: June 20, 2025 By: /s/ Marc P. Miles Hunter K. Ahern, WA Bar No. 54489 2 SHOOK, HARDY & BACON, LLP 3 701 Fifth Avenue, Suite 6800 Seattle, WA 98104-7066 4 Telephone: (206) 344-7600 Facsimile: (206) 344-3113 5 hahern@shb.com 6 Marc P. Miles (admitted pro hac vice) 7 Kristy A. Schlesinger (admitted pro hac 8 vice) SHOOK, HARDY & BACON, LLP 9 5 Park Plaza Suite 1600 Irvine, California 92614 10 Telephone: (949) 475-1500 11 Facsimile: (949) 475-0016 mmiles@shb.com 12 kschlesinger@shb.com 13 M. Kevin Underhill (admitted pro hac vice) 14 SHOOK, HARDY & BACON, LLP 555 Mission Street, Suite 2300 15 San Francisco, CA 94105 16 Telephone: (415) 544-1900 Facsimile: (415) 391-0281 17 kunderhill@shb.com 18 Attorneys for Plaintiff Comair Limited 19

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ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF COMAIR LIMITED’S 1 ORDER 2 Having reviewed the Plaintiff’s motion to file an over-length brief, the Court 3 hereby grants the motion and orders that Plaintiff’s opposition to Boeing’s motion for 4 summary judgment may contain up to 10,000 words and Boeing’s reply thereto may 5 contain up to 5,000 words. 6 IT IS SO ORDERED. 7 DATED this 7th day of July , 2025. 8

9 A 10 11 RICARDO S. MARTINEZ UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 12

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ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF COMAIR LIMITED’S