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Experience
Tyson Foods v. Garcia
Maryland Court of Appeals
Successfully argued on an appeal for Tyson Foods in Maryland, where the company had lost a $2 million judgment. The Maryland Court of Appeals reversed the lower appellate court and ordered judgment in Tyson’s favor.
City of Livonia Employees’ Retirement System v. Boeing
Argued successfully City of Livonia Employees’ Retirement System v. Boeing, 711 F.3d 754 (7th Cir. 2013), an appeal involving a high-profile securities fraud class action in which a district court found that the Robbins Geller law firm misrepresented critical facts about a confidential source in order to survive a motion to dismiss. Listen to the oral argument here. Eric also represented Boeing successfully on remand. The district court’s order sanctioning Robbins Geller is City of Livonia Employees’ Ret. Sys. v. Boeing Co., 2014 WL 4199136 (N.D. Ill. Aug. 21, 2014).
Junhong v. Boeing
Argued an appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in this aviation mass tort involving federal removal of state court cases arising from the July 2013 crash of an Asiana Airlines 777. Listen to the oral argument here.
Fortaner v. Boeing
Argued and prevailed in Fortaner v. Boeing, 504 F. Appx. 573 (9th Cir. 2013) (unpublished), an appeal about whether lawsuits filed in the United States concerning the August 2008 crash of a Spanish airliner in Spain should proceed in the United States or be dismissed under the doctrine of forum non conveniens because Spain was the proper forum. Listen to the oral argument here.
Tides v. Boeing*
Presented a successful argument in Tides v. Boeing, (No. 10-35238, 9th Cir., 2011), an appeal Eric argued while he was an in-house lawyer at Boeing, about whether the Sarbanes-Oxley Act whistleblower protections apply when employees have unauthorized contact with the media.
*Prior Experience
