BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — In the four years since her husband was among 50 people killed when a commercial flight crashed into a western New York home, Jennifer West has watched her daughter grow from toddler to school girl and taken off her wedding and engagement rings, replacing them with tattooed replicas because her ring finger felt strange without them.

But things have not moved on so swiftly in federal court, where West’s wrongful death lawsuit against the operators of Ernie West’s Newark-to-Buffalo flight is among several still unresolved.

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