Legal Opinion
Cerqueira v. American Airlines, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 10, 2008No. 07-1824PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
An airline passenger, John Cerqueira, filed suit asserting that his removal from a flight violated his rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 to be free of race discrimination in contracting. He recovered compensatory damages of $130,000 and punitive damages of $270,000 against American Airlines (“American” or “AA”), which on December 28, 2003, refused to transport Cerqueira on a flight and to rebook him on another flight. His discrimination claim was made against the statutory permission granted to airlines, in 49 U.S.C. § 44902(b), to refuse to transport a passenger “the carrier…
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