Legal Opinion
Kalantar v. Lufthansa German Airlines
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided April 10, 2003No. CIV.A.01 CV 00644 (HHK)PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
KENNEDY, District Judge.
Plaintiffs, Dr. Kamyar Kalantar, an Iranian-born physician who is a permanent resident of the United States, and his wife, Dr. Grace Lee, bring this action against Lufthansa German Airlines (“Lufthansa”) and two of its employees, Ziba Vali-Cole-man and Juergen Starks, challenging the airline’s allegedly discriminatory practices. Plaintiffs claim that on March 25, 2000, Kalantar was not allowed to board a Lufthansa flight to Germany after he refused to allow his luggage to be searched. 1 Plaintiffs assert that defendants’ insistence that…
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