Posted on 02/02/2022 7:38:37 AM PST by george76
Denver, Colorado — Mountain States Legal Foundation today announced a major step forward on an effort to hold the Federal Aviation Administration accountable for Obama-era hiring practices that were designed to exclude better-qualified air traffic control candidates, in favor of less-qualified candidates, all due to the color of their skin.
Federal judge Dabney Friedrich of the Federal District Court in the District of Columbia today approved class action certification for MSLF clients Andrew Brigida and Matthew Douglas-Cook and other aspiring air traffic controllers who scored highly on qualification tests but lost out on their dream jobs due to the FAA’s effort to skew the hiring process along racial lines.
That allows MSLF to represent approximately 1,000 qualified applicants who were passed over for an air traffic controller position as part of the FAA’s effort to prioritize racial characteristics over qualifications.”
MSLF Attorney David C. McDonald offered the following statement following the ruling:
“We’re extraordinarily pleased with the Court’s order granting class certification this morning. This is a huge win for our clients. The FAA has been trying to insert false conflicts into our class for years now, but the Judge saw through their attempts to divide us. The Court ruled today that our lawsuit can go forward on behalf of the approximately 1,000 aspiring air traffic controllers who were illegally denied career opportunities by the federal government because of the color of their skin. Now that our class has been approved, we can move into the merits phase of the case, where we expect to prove the FAA engaged in illegal race discrimination against our class. We’re excited to begin this new stage of the litigation and expect to see much more success on behalf of the class moving forward.”
Plaintiff and MSLF client Andrew Brigida was elated by the ruling.
“Today was a really great feeling,” said Brigida. “It was a shock finally hearing the Judge grant our motion to move the case along, and a long time coming. Not many cases of this type even get to this point of the lawsuit. I know there is still a lot of work ahead to be done, but I feel that today was a huge hurdle to jump over, and probably one of the bigger ones.”
Brigida thanked MSLF and the rest of his legal team for getting this now-“class action” cleared for takeoff.
Gosh, we’ll miss those runway incursion incidents when all the AA people are gone.
Great. If they win, will the attorneys make millions while the aspiring air traffic controllers get a voucher for a flight with an affirmative action United Airlines crew? United’s stated goal is 50 percent of pilots to be women and/or racial minorities.
The Feds are playing with fire when they put air passengers’ lives in danger by extending AA to traffic controllers. Fine if you want to give them Fed jobs that do not risk other people’s lives if they prove to be incompetent, but not when it comes to risking people’s lives to advance a racially discriminatory political agenda.
This Insane Diversity Program Develops Airport Traffic Controllers Based On Race, Not Competence.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3683116/posts
Finally, a sane judge.
Obama’s fault.. thinks skin color is more important than competence.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3373070/posts
ABSOLUTELY the LAST thing I
EVER wish for is to have an Affirmative Action hire working as the Air Traffic Controller while I am flying.
I want the very best qualified-—ALWAYS.
ABSOLUTELY the LAST thing I EVER wish for is to have an Affirmative Action hire working as the Air Traffic Controller while I am flying.
I want the very best qualified-—ALWAYS.
I know. Once I actually joined one of those class action lawsuits and WON! I got a letter in the mail from "my" attorneys saying for me to mail back to them (stamp cost) a form and they'd send me my 56 cents of settlement.
Now the airlines will have to force more minority individuals into flight training.
Obama’s fault.. thinks skin color is more important than competence.
Actually he is a product of that provision.
There was a black official of the FAA supplying the answers to the test to blacks especially females.
Swift justice?
The mountain states legal foundation has been involved in protecting individual constitutional rights for decades.
Check them out. Make a contribution.
All of this nonsense and far more were enabled by Regents of the University of California v. Bakke 1978.
Scotus is a disgrace.
It needs to be kicked to the curb and made humble once again.
Is this just a general rant on your part? If so, I agree because it has nothing to do with what I posted.
Oh, I’m not against the case at all. Nor the plaintiffs’ counsel. It’s just that class action suits seem to always benefit all the lawyers first and foremost — and maybe the original plaintiff.
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