Overlawyered » airlines http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:11:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 February 6 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/february-6-roundup-3/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/february-6-roundup-3/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:02:14 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27368
  • “A 4-Page Playdate Waiver? Is This the New Normal?” [Lenore Skenazy, Free-Range Kids; our 2000 post on "Rise of the High-School Sleepover Disclaimer"]
  • Spirit Airlines sets what it calls DOTUC fee, for “Dept. of Transportation Unintended Consequences” [Stoll]
  • How fairly are fathers treated in family court? [Nina Shapiro, Seattle Weekly via Alkon]
  • “‘Insider’ Trading by the Representative Plaintiff in Shareholder Litigation” [Bainbridge]
  • “Donation controversy focuses attention on Madison County asbestos litigation” [St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Chamber-backed LNL]
  • Update: Appeals court reinstates Duluth doc’s defamation claims [DNT, earlier here, here, here; "bedside manner" criticism]
  • U.K.: “‘Psychic’ Sally Morgan Sues Critics for £150,000 After Refusing $1 Million to Prove Her Powers” [D.J. Grothe, HuffPo] “She’ll be calling witnesses such as ‘an uncle, or father, or a man… with a b in his first name’.” [@thegagthief]
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  • Latest of periodic Towers Watson (formerly Towers Perrin/Tillinghast) surveys: tort costs fell in 2010 excluding oil spill liability [Towers Watson]
  • “Will Newt Neuter the Courts?” [James Huffman, Defining Ideas] Obama’s high court appointees are fortunately friendlier toward civil liberties than he is [Steve Chapman]
  • Unanimous Cal Supremes: companies not legally responsible for other companies’ asbestos products used as replacement for theirs [Cal Biz Lit, Jackson, Beck, Mass Tort Prof]
  • Claim: jurors considered policy implications of verdict and you can’t have that [On Point; defense verdict in Baltimore, Maryland school-bullying case]
  • Airfare display mandate: “‘Protecting’ Consumers from the Truth About the Cost of Government” [Thom Lambert, TotM]
  • Critical assessment of AP-backed new copyright aggregator “NewsRight” [Mike Masnick] Promises not to be “Righthaven 2.0″ [Cit Media Law]
  • Restatement (Third) of Torts drafters vs. Enlightenment scientific views of causation [David Oliver in June]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/january-31-roundup/feed/ 2     Suit: cabin noise deafened man http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/suit-cabin-noise-deafened-man/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/suit-cabin-noise-deafened-man/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:16:00 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25833 “An Oregon man who was flying home from the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport pleaded with a Delta Airlines flight attendant about the ‘extreme discomfort’ he was enduring because of a loud noise during the nearly four-hour flight.” Kent Neilson says he suffered permanent hearing loss and tinnitus and wants $2 million. [Oregonian]

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  • Furor continues over insider trading by Congress [Roger Parloff/Fortune, Bainbridge ("unimpressed" with reform proposal entitled STOCK Act), earlier] Rep. Bachus disputes claims in Peter Schweizer book [AW, Perry]
  • “Fort Hood victims’ families seek $750M from feds” [Kenneth Timmerman, Daily Caller]
  • “Chicago Lawyer Sues Southwest, Says Airline Breached Free-Drink Coupon Contract” [ABA Journal]
  • “Lawyer Solicitation: Penn State Sex Abuse Edition” [Turkewitz] Slate slags Merck CEO [Ted Frank]
  • Akaka Hawaii-racialization bill, smuggled in through the back door? [Ilya Shapiro, background]
  • Suits over Hurricane Irene electrical outages expected to spread [Connecticut Law Tribune, Chris Powell]
  • Fiasco envy? “RIAA Thinking Of Backing Righthaven” [Masnick, TechDirt] “Righthaven ordered to pay nearly $120,000 in attorney fees, court costs” [VegasInc., Ars Technica, American Power Blog]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-22-roundup-3/feed/ 2     Feds punish tarmac delays, airlines cancel flights instead (redux) http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/feds-punish-tarmac-delays-airlines-cancel-flights-instead-redux/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/feds-punish-tarmac-delays-airlines-cancel-flights-instead-redux/#comments Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:53:52 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25739 The Washington Post reports further developments on a regulatory-backfire story aired in this and many other places nearly two years ago.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/feds-punish-tarmac-delays-airlines-cancel-flights-instead-redux/feed/ 12     “Couple sues airline over cockroaches on plane” http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/couple-sues-airline-over-cockroaches-on-plane/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/couple-sues-airline-over-cockroaches-on-plane/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 05:13:36 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25648 Attorney Harry Marsh and his fiancée, Kaitlin Rush, are “suing AirTran Airways, claiming they saw cockroaches coming out of air vents and storage areas on a recent flight and that attendants ignored their concerns…. They’re suing for more than $100,000, plus the price of their tickets.” The airline denies some of the allegations in the suit and says it takes precautions against bugs. [Charlotte Observer]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/couple-sues-airline-over-cockroaches-on-plane/feed/ 5     Great moments in airline law http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/great-moments-in-airline-law/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/great-moments-in-airline-law/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:16:42 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23851 From Canada’s National Post:

    The Federal Court of Canada on Wednesday ordered Air Canada to pay $12,000 to Ottawa French-language rights crusader Michel Thibodeau in part because when he asked an English-speaking flight attendant for 7Up in May 12 of 2009, he got Sprite.

    “The applicants’ language rights are clearly very important to them and the violation of their rights caused them a moral prejudice, pain and suffering and loss of enjoyment of their vacation,” Justice Marie-Josee Bedard wrote in her judgment.

    The bulk of the lawsuit, filed by a frequent language-law litigant, contended that the airline failed to assign French-speaking flight attendants to several flights and failed to make a baggage announcement in French despite a federal law requiring alternative-language use “where there is significant demand for those services in the minority language and where it is warranted by the nature of the office or facility.”

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/great-moments-in-airline-law/feed/ 7     “Lawsuit planned by family of teen who fell from airplane” http://overlawyered.com/2011/01/lawsuit-planned-by-family-of-teen-who-fell-from-airplane/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/01/lawsuit-planned-by-family-of-teen-who-fell-from-airplane/#comments Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:47:50 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=21032 Hoping to ride for free, 16-year-old Delvonte Tisdale stowed away in the landing gear of a US Airways flight but fell to his death in the Boston area. Now his family is suing, represented by Florida attorney Christopher Chestnut, who argues that the lad “should never have successfully gained access to that airplane. Had airport security been up to par, he would be alive and well with his family today.” [Boston Globe and more via TortsProf, BoingBoing]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/01/lawsuit-planned-by-family-of-teen-who-fell-from-airplane/feed/ 10     November 26 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2010/11/november-26-roundup-3/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/11/november-26-roundup-3/#comments Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:07:52 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=20332
  • Reason TV interviews Richard Epstein;
  • On the SEC’s big new “insider trading” sweep [Ribstein, Bainbridge, Lambert, Salmon, more Ribstein]
  • Losing = winning? Ambitious claim for fees in environmental case [California Civil Justice, scroll]
  • “Unintended consequences department: canceled flights” [Ted at PoL] And check out Ted’s new TSA Abuse Blog, on one of the hottest issues of the moment. More on that from Popehat and Simple Justice;
  • H.R. 1408, the Inclusive Home Design Act, would compel handicap accessibility in private home design, yet another dreadful idea from Rep. Jan Schakowsky of CPSIA fame [AmendTheCPSIA]
  • “This place would be a shoplifter’s paradise (and a liability insurance abuser’s motherlode) in the United States, but we were in Japan, where they don’t seem to worry as much about that kind of thing.” [Mark Frauenfelder, BoingBoing, on the Showa Kan museum of everyday midcentury life in Takayama]
  • UK: “I moved out for decorators and squatters took over my house” [Evening Standard]
  • From the ruins of Pompeii, a reflection on government and disaster relief [Dum Spiro Spero]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/11/november-26-roundup-3/feed/ 2     Need for agent’s help at check-in said to be ADA violation http://overlawyered.com/2010/10/need-for-agents-help-at-check-in-said-to-be-ada-violation/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/10/need-for-agents-help-at-check-in-said-to-be-ada-violation/#comments Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:03:38 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=19865 “The National Federation for the Blind has initiated a class action lawsuit against United Airlines because United’s check-in kiosks cannot be used by blind passengers.” [Gary Leff, Boarding Area]

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