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Jury awards airline passenger $400,000
boston.com ^
| 01/16/07
| Shelley Murphy
Posted on 01/16/2007 6:43:19 AM PST by Ellesu
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posted on
01/16/2007 6:43:20 AM PST
by
Ellesu
To: Ellesu
This jury needs to be hung for stupidity.
To: Ellesu
Here we go. More capitulation to the Muslims.
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posted on
01/16/2007 6:46:46 AM PST
by
Peach
(The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
To: Peach
Where does it say he's muslim?
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posted on
01/16/2007 6:47:38 AM PST
by
Nevernow
("No one has the right to choose to do what is wrong." Abraham Lincoln)
To: Ellesu
Excessive award.
Max payment should have been 3 times the price of the ticket.
To: Always Right
Even IF this guy was unfairly detained and refused a flight, $400,000 is a ludicrous amount of money to pay for something like this!
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posted on
01/16/2007 6:48:43 AM PST
by
Elyse
(I refuse to feed the crocodile.)
To: Ellesu
I wish American would pull me from the queue and hassle me $400,000 worth. It never happens, though. Even when I forget and bring a big bottle of shampoo with me. Damn.
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posted on
01/16/2007 6:49:09 AM PST
by
Fairview
To: Ellesu
Another super example of everyone's apparent right to be outraged...and get paid for it.
Figures that some screwed up jury of nitwits in MA would render such a verdict and award.
Sheesh. The jurors were probably jealous.
Remember my new motto for the Bay State: "No outrage is too small; no tax is too big; and no sacrifice is necessary."
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posted on
01/16/2007 6:50:31 AM PST
by
RexBeach
(In war there is no substitute for victory. - Douglas MacArthur)
To: Nevernow
They thought he was Middle Eastern or with the men who they (mistakenly) thought were Middle Eastern. How much longer before every Muslim denied a flight will file lawsuits and bankrupt the airlines? Not much longer.
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posted on
01/16/2007 6:52:07 AM PST
by
Peach
(The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
To: Ellesu
After a six-day trial in US District Court in Boston, jurors on Friday found that American Airlines discriminated against Cerqueira because of race or national origin, and ordered it to pay him $130,000 in compensatory damages and $270,000 in punitive damages. I wish I could hit the jackpot like this guy. I think it's wrong and out of line with the "crime", but if them's the rules it would be great to pony up to the trough. Of course it couldn't happen for me since I'm of the race that no discrimination can't be taken against.
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posted on
01/16/2007 6:53:35 AM PST
by
subterfuge
(Today, Tolerance =greatest virtue;Hypocrisy=worst character defect; Discrimination =worst atrocity)
To: taxcontrol
Not that low but maybe 10K...
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posted on
01/16/2007 6:55:57 AM PST
by
N3WBI3
("Help me out here guys: What do you do with someone who wont put up or shut up?" - N3WBI3)
To: Peach
Ah, okay. Yeah, it'll happen. But I'd certainly hope that once a passanger was cleared, the airline would let the passanger on...
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posted on
01/16/2007 6:57:38 AM PST
by
Nevernow
("No one has the right to choose to do what is wrong." Abraham Lincoln)
To: taxcontrol
Max payment should have been 3 times the price of the ticket. That's all he's getting anyway after attorney fees.
To: Ellesu
American airlines screwed up. The police questioned the guy for 2 hours, cleared him, and the other 2 by the way who were Israelis, and still the airline wouldn't board him. Sometimes the business involved in these cases really is wrong. In any case the award will be reduced on appeal. The guy will probably wind up with much less than this jury award.
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posted on
01/16/2007 7:00:30 AM PST
by
saganite
(Billions and billions and billions-------and that's just the NASA budget!)
To: Always Right; Peach
Huh? I would have hoped he got more. The airline got off lightly. You just don't treat folks like that.
PERIOD!
To: Elyse
Even IF this guy was unfairly detained and refused a flight, $400,000 is a ludicrous amount of money to pay for something like this!Nope. Personally I think at least 1 million would have given them a deserved wakeup call.
To: Ellesu
Let's add this up......
$400,000 dollars awarded
Pilots without control of who rides the planes
Equals
moose with missions to gain money and intelligence
regarding security being lessened.
A terrible can of worms to open, but now the lid is off the can.
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posted on
01/16/2007 7:07:45 AM PST
by
From One - Many
(Trust the Old Media At Your Own Risk)
To: Ellesu; Always Right; Peach; Nevernow; taxcontrol; Elyse; Fairview; RexBeach; subterfuge; N3WBI3; ..
FYI - if you looked up a little about this guy, you'd see another reason for him to be po'd...
He was in the North Tower on the 81st floor when it was struck - he and a coworker helped a woman in a wheelchair down 68 floors.
Link to USA Today story
To: Ellesu
"I'm grateful to the jury for sending the message to American Airlines that just the use of the word security isn't an excuse for unlawful behavior."Should be, "I'm grateful to the jury for stealing $200k for me and $200k for my lawyers from AA."
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posted on
01/16/2007 7:09:58 AM PST
by
jammer
To: Ellesu
And in a related thread this morning on FR, while 'security' is supposed to be such a paramount concern of the federal government and the airlines, it was reported that over *3700* TSA badges and uniforms have gone missing, and are unaccounted for.
Maybe they'll show up in the Norman Mineta Secure Skies Memorial Museum one day.
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posted on
01/16/2007 7:10:48 AM PST
by
mkjessup
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