Posted on 05/29/2019 6:50:51 PM PDT by Kartographer
A man mauled by another passenger’s emotional support dog on a Delta Air Lines flight has sued the airline and the other passenger for negligence.
The lawsuit filed in Fulton County state court alleges Marlin Jackson was in a window seat when a dog sitting in the lap of the passenger next to him suddenly attacked his face and pinned him against the window of the plane.
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Maybe PBT type, but that’s not a Good pix at all. Believe it or not, it’s possible that some other mutt, even Lab based, could get aggressive.
The Crazy Years.
I’m smelling the plot to an “Airplane” sequel here!
Not true. Emotional support animals do not qualify as service animals under the ADA.
That card is fraud.
All kinds of trashy people walking around airports now with dogs. It’s nonsense.
United refused to allow my support badger on the airplane.
That sounds awful. Once, a woman sat next to me on a plane with a small dog, she said it was her emotional support animal. But she asked me if I was allergic, I said no, and then she said if he bothered me let her know and she would put him in his carrier.
So her attitude and care for my feelings was OK so I was fine. If it had been a different dog and a different human I probably would have said I was allergic.
My emotional support animal is a Desert Eagle. It will feed on any of these so-called support animals and their owners...
Every thing is now after the fact and the person bitten will have
those scars both mentally and physically for a life time. I don’t
have problems with dogs but Pits aren’t one I’d have or trust.
I think the thing to do is have a desgnated area in the back as the place where all the folks with animals can travel. If its full you need another flight.
I know.
At a museum where I volunteer which is part of the National Archives, pets are not allowed. However a few months ago, a woman was going through the galleries with two pit bulls that were supposedly "service dogs." The management told us that we could do nothing but let her go through. She did so without incident, but I questioned the policy of allowing a dog of an unstable breed into the museum despite its status as a "service dog."
Maybe he (the victim) will need an emotional support something now. Probably emotional support Benjamins.
Before I retired from my Pentagon job (2013), I went to a building meeting and the topic of emotional dogs came up. There for years had been a rule in place that the only dogs allowed on the grounds (within the structure) would be guard dogs and seeing-eye dogs. At some point after 2005, they rewrote the regulation and allowed emotional dogs (you had to apply for the waiver to enter).
So at some point, there was a dog-on-dog fight (two emotional dogs in conflict, if you can imagine this). So the management of the building sat and down to review this. They had roughly forty people who were bringing in their dogs now. This was on a upward trend. Management then kinda admitted....the building, the lengthy hallways, and the limited grounds....just weren’t made for a massive number of dogs.
All of this was leading to a point where they’d have to make the rules more stringent, and make this support animal business more regulatory.
https://www.ada.gov/regs2010/service_animal_qa.html
The owner is obligated to keep a service animal under control at all times. This guy is completely liable.
The ADA does not require certification. Covered entities cannot require documentation. Because they can’t ask for documentation, I refuse to write letters for patients requesting it.
Emotional support animals are NOT considered service animals under the ADA.
“Q37. Do commercial airlines have to comply with the ADA?
A. No. The Air Carrier Access Act is the Federal law that protects the rights of people with disabilities in air travel.”
https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.dev/files/docs/Part%20382-2008_0.pdf
Looks like I was wrong, Drango, the government does make it a problem for the airlines and includes emotional support animals there, even though they’re not under the ADA.
https://www.ada.gov/regs2010/service_animal_qa.html
The owner is obligated to keep a service animal under control at all times. This guy is completely liable.
The ADA does not require certification. Covered entities cannot require documentation. Because they can’t ask for documentation, I refuse to write letters for patients requesting it.
Emotional support animals are NOT considered service animals under the ADA.
“Q37. Do commercial airlines have to comply with the ADA?
A. No. The Air Carrier Access Act is the Federal law that protects the rights of people with disabilities in air travel.”
https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.dev/files/docs/Part%20382-2008_0.pdf
Looks like I was wrong, Drango, the government does make it a problem for the airlines and includes emotional support animals there, even though they’re not under the ADA.
https://www.ada.gov/regs2010/service_animal_qa.html
The owner is obligated to keep a service animal under control at all times. This guy is completely liable.
The ADA does not require certification. Covered entities cannot require documentation. Because they can’t ask for documentation, I refuse to write letters for patients requesting it.
Emotional support animals are NOT considered service animals under the ADA.
“Q37. Do commercial airlines have to comply with the ADA?
A. No. The Air Carrier Access Act is the Federal law that protects the rights of people with disabilities in air travel.”
https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.dev/files/docs/Part%20382-2008_0.pdf
Looks like I was wrong, Drango, the government does make it a problem for the airlines and includes emotional support animals there, even though they’re not under the ADA.
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