Legal Opinion
Michael Hingson v. Pacific Southwest Airlines, a California Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 2, 1984No. 83-5925PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SNEED, Circuit Judge:
Michael Hingson, a blind person, in this appeal challenges certain evidentiary rulings in the course of a trial of a claim under 49 U.S.C. § 1374(b) and directed verdicts against him in several other causes of action brought against Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA). These claims arose from the airline’s insistence that Hingson sit in a bulkhead seat, i.e., the front row of the passenger section of an aircraft. We affirm the entry of directed verdicts against Hingson. The district court erred, however, in the challenged evidentiary rulings. Because of this error, we…
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