Any word on the NW or XJ court hearings

[WMUSIGPI]

Did anything come of the courts for either hearing today?

 

[wmudriver]

March 1st=new deadline

 

[Workin'Stiff]

Did anyone hear if the court ruled about closing the proceedings during spandex's testimony???

 

[fieldinsight]

March 1st=new deadline

For NWA, pilots and FA's, March 1 is new date. Any word on XJ? Links to relevant info would be helpful as well.

Nothing on Star-Trib website yet, so either they lost, or its still being argued...

 

[fieldinsight]

Once again, the court sides with the company :angryfire :

http://www.startribune.com/535/story/269733.html


"I don't like to kick anybody out of my courtroom," Kishel said during the opening day of a hearing on a Mesaba motion to void labor contracts with its pilots, flight attendants and mechanics.

But the judge described the regional carrier, which filed for bankruptcy in October, as a "very vulnerable" company, and granted its request to keep certain documents and testimony out of the public eye.

Mesaba's financial projections and other key data "absolutely cannot be out in the public," because the airline would be harmed in competitive bidding for regional jet flying with Northwest Airlines and other big carriers, Mesaba attorney Ken Hipp said.

Besides keeping some documents out of the public arena, Hipp said it is also crucial to Mesaba to close the courtroom when three Mesaba executives and one Northwest executive testify about commercially sensitive information.
Eric Jorstad, an attorney for the Star Tribune, objected to Mesaba's motion to close the courtroom and classify an array of documents as confidential. "These are not secret courts," Jorstad said.

It would appear that it is a secret court after all...

 

[fieldinsight]

It appears this is a hot topic. Obviously it couldn't happen elsewhere....

Here's a bump for those who couldn't be bothered to scroll down before creating a new thread...

 

[WMUSIGPI]

Too bad what those jackarses propose will kill the company faster than any court hearing on how they fudge the numbers. At this rate we'll all be sneaking into Mexico for the "high paying" jobs.

 

[gnx99]

Mesaba's financial projections and other key data "absolutely cannot be out in the public," because the airline would be harmed in competitive bidding for regional jet flying with Northwest Airlines and other big carriers, Mesaba attorney Ken Hipp said.[/B]

This is gonna be even more dumb if we don't get RJ flying for other carriers.

 

[flyn96]

Yea they don't want in on public record that our President and COO Spanjers can only say, "um, ah", "going foreward", "metrics", "at the end of the day".

Its gotta be hard to attract new investors when the man supposedlly steering the boat is lost.

 

[WMUSIGPI]

CLEARLY JS's destiny is to become a musician... just listen to those keys jingle