In re Air Crash Disaster at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on August 16, 1987

ORDER

JULIAN ABELE COOK, Jr., Chief Judge.

On September 29, 1989, the Defendant, McDonnell Douglas Corporation (MDC), moved this Court to compel the Defendant, Northwest Airlines, Inc. (Northwest), to produce trial exhibit number 2145 or, as an alternative, to preclude Northwest from proffering this document at trial. In addition, MDC seeks to recover its costs, including attorneys’ fees, which it incurred in connection with this motion. For the following reasons, this Court determines that Northwest (1) may not proffer trial exhibit number 2145 at trial, and (2) must pay MDC’s reasonable…