American Airlines: Victim-blaming run amok

[TheProle]

American Airlines blames 9-year-old girl for being filmed in plane bathroom: ‘Shocking and outrageous’

American Airlines, facing lawsuits after a flight attendant allegedly filmed girls using plane bathrooms, is blaming a 9-year-old girl for being secretly recorded.

The airline in a new court filing is arguing that the young girl should have known that the airplane toilet contained a recording device.

“Defendant would show that any injuries or illnesses alleged to have been sustained by Plaintiff, Mary Doe, were proximately caused by Plaintiff’s own fault and negligence,” American Airlines’ lawyers wrote in their defense filing.

The airline’s attorneys added about the 9-year-old girl using “the compromised lavatory” on the plane: “She knew or should have known contained a visible and illuminated recording device.”

The lawsuits against American Airlines started after a former flight attendant was arrested in connection with allegedly recording a 14-year-old girl in a plane’s bathroom on a Boston-bound flight.

[John Shaft]

1. Welp

that's enough internet for me today.

[MontanaMama]

2. So American Airlines

is going to die on this hill? Defending a pedophile and blaming the victims? I didn’t think I could be shocked…but this takes my breath away.

[Wednesdays]

3. American Airlines? Die?

You won't even see a hiccup on their stock market graph.

[thucythucy]

4. Suppose, just for a moment,

that there's some validity to the notion that "she should have known."

What are people then supposed to do? Not use the bathroom for the duration of the flight?

Some attorney at American Airlines needs to go back to litigating traffic tickets.

[mopinko]

12. put a wad of wet tp over the thing?

srsly. this is insanity.

[thucythucy]

15. I assume that the camera was hidden

but I could be wrong.

Is video surveillance of rest rooms on airliners a thing now? Seems bizarre, if not illegal.

[Beaverhausen]

5. American Airlines said this filing was made in error

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/american-airlines-blames-9-year-old-in-case-of-flight-attendant-recording-girls-in-plane-bathroom/3376517/

American Airlines released a statement denouncing the filing: "Our outside legal counsel retained with our insurance company made an error in this filing. The included defense is not representative of our airline and we have directed it be amended this morning. We do not believe this child is at fault and we take the allegations involving a former team member very seriously. Our core mission is to care for people — and the foundation of that is the safety and security of our customers and team."

[TheProle]

7. Thank you for the update

Hard to tell how much is covering their ass vs rogue counsel, but encouraging on its face.

[The Mouth]

8. So?

There is no way any lawyers would file such a thing without high level executives being briefed and signing off on it.

I hope American and their lawyers get fucked so hard in court that entirely new accounting methods are needed to assess the damage. Personally, putting *all* executive level staff away in the same facility as the creep who committed the action, for just as long; 30-life sounds about right for anyone above this creep. If it were my daughter it would be 2 billion or I am coming after the CEO.

[former9thward]

13. No, that is not how legal representation works with large corporations.

Outside lawyers do not run their run of the mill briefs past "high level executives". Real world.

[MontanaMama]

11. Sure thing...

I don’t believe that for a second. They just didn’t expect the backlash.

[multigraincracker]

6. When it comes to a corporations reputation,

bad news makes it around the world before good news makes it across the street.

[The Mouth]

9. I can't think of very many corporations with a good reputation

There really shouldn't even be such an entity wherein anyone with control or authority is not personally criminally and civilly liable for anything the entity does.

[former9thward]

14. Should a president be personally criminally and civilly liable for anything the federal government does?

[The Mouth]

16. That is an interesting question

I have no idea.

I think if they try to claim credit for the economy when it is doing well they should be blamed when it is doing poorly. If they want to be credited for a drop in crime they should be blamed for an increase in it.
If they want to take credit for gas prices going DOWN then they should get shit when gas prices go up. If they criticized the previous occupant for doing something they should be fried in the court of public opinion for doing the same thing, regardless of the party.

But we have a lot more chance and input on getting rid of a President or Governor than we do a CEO of a typical corporation.

[Hekate]

10. Next stop on the downward career ladder for these lawyers: working for Donald Trump