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LANDGRAF v. McDONNELL DOUGLAS HELICOPTER CO.

No. 92-5631.

993 F.2d 558 (1993)

Patricia LANDGRAF, Executrix of the Estate of Jerome Landgraf, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. McDONNELL DOUGLAS HELICOPTER COMPANY, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided May 13, 1993.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied July 8, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Daniel Kemp, Dixon & Kemp, Hopkinsville, KY, and Jack R. Dodson, Jr. (briefed) and Charles M. Merkel (argued), Merkel & Cocke, Clarksdale, MS, for plaintiff-appellant.

Richard C. Roberts, Whitlow, Roberts, Houston & Russell, Paducah, KY, and George McCall and Christopher S. Kilgore (argued and briefed), Kern & Wooley, Irving, TX, for defendants-appellees.

Before: JONES and NELSON, Circuit Judges; and LIVELY, Senior Circuit Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied July 8, 1993.

LIVELY, Senior Circuit Judge.

In this wrongful death action by the widow of an Army chief warrant officer who was killed in a helicopter crash, the district court granted the helicopter manufacturer's motion for summary judgment on the basis of the "government contractor defense" recognized by the Supreme Court in Boyle v. United Technologies Corp., 487 U.S. 500, 108...

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