Beside the point. The point being, United’s payoffs look like an attempt to influence potential witnesses. A stupid move. Can you imagine what a good trial lawyer would do with it?
Here’s just one of several takes:
Men and women of the jury, the manhandling to which Dr. Dao was subjected was so brutal, so beyond the pale, so HORRIFYING, that even those who merely witnessed it were traumatized. Merely seeing and hearing the abusive treatment required United Airlines to pay compensation. Think about it, men and women of the jury; every passenger on the flight required compensation, just to make up for the horror they witnessed.
That would be the lamest argument I’ve ever seen in a courtroom. if I’m on that jury I would find for the plaintiff and award $1 in damages.