Legal Opinion
Helicopters, Inc. v. National Transportation Safety Board
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 13, 2015No. 15-3028Published
1Per curiam
Helicopters, Inc., filed a petition for review asking this court to order the National Transportation Safety Board to rescind or withhold reports on a crash involving a helicopter operated by the company. We conclude that the Board’s reports are not final orders subject to our review, and thus we dismiss the petition for lack of jurisdiction.
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In March 2014, two people were killed when a news helicopter crashed in Seattle. Helicopters, Inc., a company based in Illinois, owned and operated the helicopter involved in the crash. The National Transportation Safety Board began an investigation of…
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