- Newspaper execs who faked circulation numbers ended up copping pleas. Law deans who fudged employment stats don’t need to worry, do they? [Morgan Cloud and George Shepherd via Paul Caron]
- Back in The Excuse Factory I wrote about the unplanned consequences of age discrimination law and the prohibition of automatic retirement ages and it’s nice to see a wider consensus forming even if nothing, absolutely nothing, ever gets done to fix it [Saul Levmore and Martha Nussbaum, WSJ]
- Fair use: “Man who sued over Facebook childbirth livestream slapped with $120k in fees” [Joe Mullin, Ars Technica]
- “Stop Faking Service Dogs: Loving your pet too much is putting people with real disabilities at risk” [Wes Siler, Outside, our tag on service animals] More: Michael Ollove, Stateline;
- Fifth Circuit reverses $663 million Eastern District of Texas False Claims Act award over sale of guardrails to highway authorities [U.S. ex rel. Harman v. Trinity Industries, Mark Curriden/Texas Lawbook, our earlier critical commentary]
- “Why Conservatives Should not Sic Antitrust on Silicon Valley” [John McGinnis, Liberty and Law]
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Wes Siler’s article makes many valid points regarding pets v. service animals, and the importance for the distinction between the two
He fails to discuss, however, the most important reason why people fake service animals on airplanes–cost. Pets cost money, sometimes a lot. Service animals fly free.
cost may not be the most important reason for people who love their pets too much. Flying a pet checked as cargo can be dangerous to the animal. Small pets such as cats or small dogs can be brought into the passenger cabin in a travel crate as a carry-on at some cost, but larger dogs and other animals can only be in the passenger cabin as service animals.
“He fails to discuss, however, the most important reason why people fake service animals on airplanes–cost.”
Actually, he sort of does address this if you read all the way to the end of the article.
He spends the last paragraph wondering why, given the obvious demand for people to travel with their pets why no one has tried starting a “pet friendly” airline or why the major airlines haven’t created individual pet’s welcome flights on popular routes.