Alabama Aircraft Industries, Inc. v. Boeing Co.

*733MEMORANDUM OPINION

R. DAVID PROCTOR, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

Over the past four decades, singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell has won Grammys in the traditional folk and pop music categories, as well as a lifetime achievement award. Many of her songs are hits and have been covered by such diverse musicians as Prince, Amy Grant, the Counting Crows, and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. One of those songs, Big Yellow Taxi, reminds us of this: “Don’t it always seem to go, That you don’t know what you’ve got til its gone.”1 But in this case, Alabama Aircraft Industries, Inc. (“AAI”) contends that…