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Jade Schiewe, et al. v. Cessna Aircraft Company
Paid petition · Supreme Court of Oklahoma, No. 121, 203 · judgment March 12, 2024
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
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Whether a maintenance manual prepared by a manufacturer of a general aviation aircraft is a part of an aircraft for the purposes of the General Aviation Revitalization Action of 1994, PL 103–298, August 17, 1994, 108 Stat 1552, 49 U.S.C. § 40101 note (“GARA”).
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Whether the eighteen-year limitation period of GARA applies to maintenance manuals such that a general aviation aircraft manufacturer is immunized by GARA from liability for injuries arising from its negligence in failing to correct an erroneous provision of a maintenance manual where the manufacturer is aware of the error and the maintenance manual was published more than eighteen years prior to the incident which caused the injuries.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
James Earle Weger
Jones, Gotcher & Bogan, P.C.
For respondent
James K. Secrest II
Secrest, Hill, Butler & Secrest
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Oct 07 2024Petition DENIED.
- Jul 31 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/30/2024.
- Jul 11 2024Brief of respondent Cessna Aircraft Company in opposition filed.
- Jun 10 2024Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 15, 2024)