Legal Opinion
Gamson v. British Airways, PLC
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided June 5, 2014No. Civil Action No. 2014-0527PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JAMES E. BOASBERG, United States District Judge
This case proves the truth of Mark Twain’s aphorism that “[t]he difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” Except here only a single letter’s difference is involved.
Plaintiffs Edward Gamson and Lowell Canaday were set to fly first class from Washington through London to Granada, Spain, for some much-needed relaxation. Defendant British Airways, perhaps believing a Caribbean vacation preferable, instead booked the last leg of the trip to Grenada, in the…
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