Posted on 04/13/2017 5:01:48 AM PDT by tioga
Mensch
Noun, pl menschen, (mench)
A decent, upright, mature, and responsible person.
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LoL A++
no, not a hero, and yes maybe a jerk, but he will receive compensation far beyond the paltry bribes they offered. United will suffer for their mishandling of this situation.
Present.
John Banzhaf disagrees:
George Washington law professor John Banzhaf has a pretty neat argument about United’s liability. Defenders of corporate jackboots and internet lawyers everywhere have been quick to refer to the Contract of Carriage. Technically, you agree to this every time you buy an airline ticket. United’s defenders say that rule 25, “Denied Boarding Compensation,” allowed United to refuse to honor Dao’s ticket in an overbooking situation. Which it does. But Professor Banzhaf points out that Dao wasn’t “denied boarding.” As George Carlin might say, he wasn’t on the plane, he was “in” the plane. At that point, rule 21, “Refusal of Transport,” should apply to Dao, not rule 25. Banzhaf writes: “ Rule 21, entitled “Refusal of Transport,” is very different because it clearly and expressly covers situations in which a passenger who has already boarded the plane can be removed…
Yes, SD tweeted in defence of the United overlords. I opposed.
Yes. Like Scalia’s stamp, just slightly paraphrased.
United was “Stupid, but legal.”
Aw...you beat me to it. I was going to post a similar theme.
But it is easy to see what is on all of our minds!
Neil is the new Mensch on the bench.
Overbooked is a technical term that does not apply since that crew was never booked. They wanted paying passengers tossed to accommodate poor planning. It was 4 hours away...rent them a car.
Presser by Dao lawyers on now.
we have yet to see about “legal”.
Huh! Lawyer brought up that it was not an overbooked situation. Also, that harming him while removing him was illegal. A violation of law. Interesting.
Suffered a serious concussion. Broken nose, lost two front teeth. Reconstructive surgery is next. Dear, God.
Cops employees of city of Chicago. Lawyer says they are also responsible. Wow. United and Chicago are gonna pay big bucks.
No Dem monkey wrench
could keep Gorsuch off the bench;
we needed that mensch.
Triple-rhyming haiku ping!
We will see indeed.
United will sue Chicago. United doesn’t control how much force the police use, if this was a case of excessive force. I don’t think it is.
It’s a pity the guy got hurt, but it’s his own fault.
On the actual topic for today, sort of, my daughter has been reading a book by a WWII concentration camp survivor for school. She was asking me to look up the words used to describe places/people in the camps, which were German.
Anyway, that brought me to a list of “common” Yiddish words, and she knew absolutely none of them. Mensch was one.
Dao is suing both. Captain of plane is ultimately responsible. Cops have zero authority to use force. Man was seated and buckled in. Then his wife, who was not selected was told to get off plane. Wow. Huge mess. All to fly employees. Betting they settle for better than $10MIL.
As. She sounds quite studious.
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