Headline : Boeings 737 Max plea deal was struck down for having too much DEI

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Boeing (BA+1.25%) suffered a major legal setback Thursday when a federal judge struck down the plea agreement that the company had hoped would bring a major piece of litigation to a close.

Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas rejected the plea deal Boeing had struck in the wake of fatal plane crashes in 2018 and 2019 because the agreement would be too deferential to Boeing and includes too many diversity-equity-and-inclusion considerations.

“The plea agreement requires the parties to consider race when hiring the independent monitor,” O’Connor wrote in his order striking down the deal. “Additionally, the plea agreement marginalizes the Court in the selection and monitoring of the independent monitor. These provisions are inappropriate and against the public interest.”

Boeing did not immediately respond to a Quartz request for comment.

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