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Zohrehvandi’s lawyers, Kelli Evans and Christy Lopez, belong to the Washington-based civil rights firm Relman and Associates, whose attorneys are best known for winning large class action settlements in the recent Denny’s restaurant and Avis Rent-a-Car discrimination suits. The firm is representing several other men kicked off planes as well. Evans and Lopez, both veterans of the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, compare Zohrehvandi’s having to wait for a pilot willing to fly him to forcing a customer in a restaurant to wait until a non-discriminatory waitress is willing to serve him. Refusal to provide service to a passenger because of his or her race is illegal, they argue, and federal law appears to be on their side.

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The firm is representing several other men kicked off planes as well.

Well it certainly appears that Relman and associates have an assembly-line operation going here, no doubt fostered by getting fed willing participants like Wallid Shatter by CAIR.

Their objective seems to be to hamstring the airlines by taking the decision about who flies and who doesn't AWAY from the pilots and placed with, no doubt, some bureaucracy which terrorists will eagerly exploit.