Hecht Partners Exits Boeing 737 Class Action Over Attorney Rift

Hecht Partners LLP, one of the firms spun out from Pierce Bainbridge Beck Price & Hecht LLP, got permission to withdraw from litigation against Boeing Co. and Southwest Airlines Co. over an alleged design defect on the 737 Max 8 engine after a federal judge found that former colleagues could not get along.

Damonie Earl and eight other passengers claim that the companies violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act by concealing the flaws in the crash-prone engines. That allowed Southwest to artificially inflate ticket prices, they allege in aproposed class claim that survived a motion to dismiss in ...