Rodriguez v. Lockheed Martin Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• noting the Ninth Circuit’s “consistent position that the government contractor defense is not a grant of immunity but is only a corollary financial benefit flowing from the government’s sovereign immunity”
• noting the Ninth Circuit’s “consistent position that the government contractor defense is not a grant of immunity but is only a corollary financial benefit flowing from the government’s sovereign immunity”
• refusing to deem claim preempted under Boyle where \there is no proof to establish as a matter of law that the equipment [alleged to have injured the victims] conformed to the government’s pre- cise specifications\
• “[A] denial of summary judgment on the basis of an issue of material fact is ordinarily not a final judgment and not a basis for an interlocutory appeal.”
• “[A] denial of summary judgment on the basis of an issue of material fact is ordinarily not a final judgment and not a basis for an interlocutory appeal.”
• “The writ of mandamus is an ‘extraordinary’ remedy limited to ‘extraordinary’ causes.” (quoting Burlington N. & Santa Fe Ry. Co. v. U.S. Dist. Ct., 408 F.3d 1142, 1146 (9th Cir. 2005))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).