The airline's attorneys wrote in an answer to the lawsuit involving the 9-year-old from Austin, “She knew or should have known [the compromised lavatory] contained a visible and illuminated recording device." But now, the airline says its outside legal counsel "made an error in the filing."
  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Whatever lawyer or lawyers thought “blame the victimized child” was a good defense strategy need to be disbarred.

  • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
    01·
    1 year ago

    The problem is that American Airlines needs another TAX PAYER FUNDED BAILOUT so they can hire BETTER lawyers and buy BETTER cameras to spy on little girls peeing! We could take money from EDUCATION and give it to AMERICAN AIRLINES TOILET CAMERA FUND!

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    01·
    1 year ago

    Essentially:

    We did don’t know this would become a public interest story in national media

    It wasn’t an accident, it was the boilerplate answer corporate lawyers always give.