"Meet the Fockers"
A Washington state woman intends to press a civil-rights case against Southwest Airlines for booting her off a flight in Reno after fellow passengers complained about a message on her T-shirt.
Lorrie Heasley, of Woodland, Wash., was halfway home on a flight Tuesday that began in Los Angeles, wearing a T-shirt with the pictures of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and a phrase similar to the popular film, Meet the Fockers.
Allen Lichtenstein, lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union in Nevada, said Heasley’s T-shirt is “protected†political speech under the Constitution. The real issue, he said, is that the airline allowed her to wear the shirt onboard and then objected only when people complained.
“That they changed rules in the middle of a flight simply because someone didn’t like it and it might be problematic,†he said.
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A Washington state woman intends to press a civil-rights case against Southwest Airlines for booting her off a flight in Reno after fellow passengers complained about a message on her T-shirt.
Lorrie Heasley, of Woodland, Wash., was halfway home on a flight Tuesday that began in Los Angeles, wearing a T-shirt with the pictures of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and a phrase similar to the popular film, Meet the Fockers.
Allen Lichtenstein, lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union in Nevada, said Heasley’s T-shirt is “protected†political speech under the Constitution. The real issue, he said, is that the airline allowed her to wear the shirt onboard and then objected only when people complained.
“That they changed rules in the middle of a flight simply because someone didn’t like it and it might be problematic,†he said.
Full Story @ usatoday.com
posted by MillerLite! @ 08:06:19
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