By Jonathan Stempel
(Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Monday decertified a class-action lawsuit accusing Boeing Co and Southwest Airlines Co of concealing a serious safety defect in the Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane, and ordered the lawsuit be dismissed.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a case where a lower court had certified classes covering nearly 200 million ticket purchases.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Chris Reese)
