Matt Molnar
2009-01-06, 03:53 PM
Flier wins $240,000 settlement over t-shirt flap (http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2009-01-05-jetblue-tsa-settlement_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip)
NEW YORK (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union said Monday JetBlue Airways Corp. and the Transportation Security Administration paid $240,000 to a man who claimed he was discriminated against based on his ethnicity and Arabic writing on his T-shirt.
Raed Jarrar alleged that the TSA and JetBlue officials prevented him from boarding a flight out of New York's John F. Kennedy Airport in August 2006 until he agreed to cover his shirt, which read "We Will Not Be Silent" in English and Arabic. Jarrar also claimed JetBlue eventually allowed him on the flight, but then made him sit at the back of the plane.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on Jarrar's behalf in August 2007. [Full Article (http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2009-01-05-jetblue-tsa-settlement_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip)]
Baloney, IMO.
NEW YORK (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union said Monday JetBlue Airways Corp. and the Transportation Security Administration paid $240,000 to a man who claimed he was discriminated against based on his ethnicity and Arabic writing on his T-shirt.
Raed Jarrar alleged that the TSA and JetBlue officials prevented him from boarding a flight out of New York's John F. Kennedy Airport in August 2006 until he agreed to cover his shirt, which read "We Will Not Be Silent" in English and Arabic. Jarrar also claimed JetBlue eventually allowed him on the flight, but then made him sit at the back of the plane.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on Jarrar's behalf in August 2007. [Full Article (http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2009-01-05-jetblue-tsa-settlement_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip)]
Baloney, IMO.