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Saturday, February 1, 2020
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Family kicked off flight over alleged body odor sues, claiming 'unbearable humiliation'
A Michigan couple kicked off an American Airlines flight last year because of their alleged body odor filed a federal lawsuit against the carrier claiming they were victims of religious and racial discrimination.
In the civil action filed this week in Texas, Michigan residents Yehuda Yosef Adler and Jennie Adler said they suffered from "unbearable humiliation, embarrassment and mental and emotional anguish," after being removed from Detroit-bound Flight 1023 in Miami on Jan. 23, 2019.
The couple and their daughter, who was then 19 months old, who are Orthodox Jews, had just taken their seats when a gate agent allegedly told Yehuda Yosef Adler: "Sir, there's an emergency and you must deplane," the lawsuit claims.
"Once outside, defendant's agent told Mr. Adler that the pilot was booting the family off the plane because of body odor," the family's Houston-based lawyer Nwadi Nwogu wrote in the suit.
"Ms. Adler asked the agent if the body odor was emanating from him, his wife or child and the agent would not respond to the question but continued to state that the Adlers must leave the plane at the instruction of the pilot and because they had extremely offensive body odor," the suit says.
The Adlers told airline staff they had bathed early that day, prior to their morning flight.
"In response, defendant's agent made disparaging and derogatory statement telling the Adlers that he knew Orthodox Jews take baths once a week," Nwogu wrote.
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The family said a search engine inquiry of the words "body odor" includes "results showing the Adler name," the lawsuit said.
"Despite having done nothing wrong, American Airlines Flight 1023 took off without plaintiffs but with the plaintiffs' entire luggage," the lawsuit continued. "It was apparent that the Adlers had been racially profiled,"
The Fort Worth-based carrier defends its actions, saying that it was responding to complaints from other customers on board.
"The Adler family was asked to deplane after multiple passengers and our crew members complained about Mr. Adler’s body odor," the airline said in a statement to NBC News on Friday.
"The decision was made out of concern for the comfort of our other passengers. Our team members took care of the family and provided hotel accommodations and meals, and rebooked them on a flight to Detroit the next morning. None of the decisions made by our team in handling this sensitive situation were based on the Adler’s religion," the lawsuit says.
The lawsuit seeks an unspecified amount of damages.
Schiff calls out Trump lawyer Cipollone after Bolton places him 'in the loop' on Ukraine
House manager Adam Schiff called out Trump defense team lawyer Pat Cipollone Friday, saying that in his capacity as White House counsel he was “in the loop” in the effort to persuade Ukrainian officials to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden.
That allegation originated in a forthcoming memoir by former national security adviser John Bolton. Details from Bolton’s manuscript have leaked out over the past week. In an article published Friday, the New York Times reported on Bolton’s account ofan Oval Office meeting in early May at which President Trump directed him “to help with his pressure campaign to extract damaging information on Democrats from Ukrainian officials.”
Bolton claims that Cippolone, who has led Trump’s defense team during theimpeachment trial, attended the Oval Office meeting with the president, along with acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
“You will recall Mr. Cipollone suggesting how the House managers were concealing facts from this body. He said all the facts should come out. Well, there’s a new fact which indicates that Mr. Cipollone was among those who were in the loop. Yet another reason why we ought to hear from witnesses,” Schiff, D-Calif., said as the Senate debated whether to call witnesses like Bolton and Mulvaney during Trump’s impeachment trial.
It appears that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has secured enough Republican votes to keep witnesses from appearing at the trial, but if Bolton’s allegation is true, it means that Cipollone was, in addition to heading up the president’s defense team, a fact witness in the case itself.
Mulvaney has previously denied that he ever discussed the efforts to secure a Ukrainian announcement of an investigation into Biden.
On Friday, Trump refuted Bolton’s account.
“I never instructed John Bolton to set up a meeting for Rudy Giuliani, one of the greatest corruption fighters in America and by far the greatest mayor in the history of N.Y.C., to meet with President Zelensky,” Mr. Trump said in a statement released Friday in response to the Times article. “That meeting never happened.”
Giuliani also denied that the Oval Office conversation had ever taken place.
The meeting the Times describes is a lie. If Bolton is the source and he believed this was so bad, why didn’t he quit? How much integrity and honor will a man sacrifice for greed and revenge?
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Records unearthed by House investigators, however, show that Giuliani’s months-long pressure campaign on Ukraine overlapped with the May meeting alleged in Bolton’s book.
Writing at Just Security earlier in the week, NYU School of Law professor Stephen Gillers weighed in on the question of the White House counsel’s apparent dual role in the impeachment case.
“A legal ethics rule — the ‘advocate-witness rule’ — says that when a lawyer should be a witness at trail, she cannot also be an advocate in the courtroom,” Gillers wrote. “The Senate chamber is not, of course, an ordinary courtroom, but that should make no difference. The goal is the same — to get the facts and find the truth.”
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