A new lawsuit in the ongoing saga surrounding late Boeing whistleblowerJohn Barnett is spotlighting the deep emotional stress the maverick quality inspector experienced from what he blasted as the planemaker’s campaign to muzzle him from exposing drastic production gaffes. The complaint also spotlights Barnett’s final thoughts as he contemplated taking his own life after locking himself inside his pickup truck overnight during a torrential rainstorm—a testament of righteous rage expressed in an extraordinarily tortured suicide note.
On March 19, Barnett’s estate filed a “wrongful death” action in the United States District Court in South Carolina, Charleston District, seeking damages on behalf of his mother and three surviving brothers. Joining the family’s longstanding counsels Rob Turkewitz and Brian Knowles is legendary litigator David Boies, along with Boris, Schiller managing partner Sigrid McCawley. Since 2017, Turkewitz and Knowles have been pursuing Boeing for allegedly violating the OSHA rules making it unlawful to retaliate against a whistleblower. Following Barnett’s death, the duo continued that regulatory lawsuit on behalf of the Barnett’s estate, and Boies joined the team. The wrongful death civil action states that “John’s PTSD, depression, anxiety and panic attacks, all caused by Boeing’s wrongful conduct, caused him to take his own life, which he would not have done but for being subjected to Boeing’s hostile work environment and its continuing...
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