[laxcoach]

“By buying your ticket you gave up a lot of rights,” countered the TSA supervisor.

The encounter on video raises a couple of immediate issues:

1) What is the basis of the civil suit? Note it's not criminal. What are the damages?

2) Ok so I understand the ticket may have terms and conditions that I am agreeing to. However, I CANNOT WAIVE RIGHTS FOR MY CHILD. I CANNOT SAY TO SOMEONE, YOU CAN MOLEST MY CHILD IF...

There are no circumstances, short of criminal arrest by a law enforcement official or medical care, where someone can lawfully touch my kids' genitals.

My feeling is that would need to be enacted as law in order to supercede sexual molestation laws. Some lawyer out there must know.

[bvw]

Contracts for illegal actions are illegal. The pat down groping would be considered as sexual assault in all situations except medical treatment and criminal detention. We are not criminals, thus the groping pat down is illegal and we can not agree by any legit contract to give it up.

The web site CriminalDefenseLawyer.com paraphrases one state's law as follows. I have hi-lighted the sections I think apply to the TSA screenings:

In n Pennsylvania, sexual battery is codified in the law as indecent contact. According to the laws of Pennsylvania;

A person who has indecent contact with the victim or causes victim to have indecent contact with the person is guilty of indecent assault if:

• the person does so without the complainant's consent;

• the person does so by forcible compulsion;

• the person does so by threat of forcible compulsion that would prevent resistance by a person of reasonable resolution;

• victim is unconscious or the person knows that the victim is unaware that the indecent contact is occurring;

• the person has substantially impaired the victim's power to appraise or control his or her conduct by administering or employing, without the knowledge of the victim, drugs, intoxicants or other means for the purpose of preventing resistance;

• the victim suffers from a mental disability which renders him or her incapable of consent;

• the victim is less than 13 years of age; or

• the victim is less than 16 years of age and the person is four or more years older than the victim and the victim and the person are not married to each other.