Airline meal dispute resolves assault/battery quandary
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Airline meal dispute resolves assault/battery quandary
I'll bet you didn't know that any acts of violence on an airplane can land you in federal court on criminal charges. Consider yourself on notice that hitting a flight attendant violates the law against assault.
The case is United States v. Delis, decided on March 5. Delis was angry when the flight attendant told him they ran out of chicken and he would have to settle for beef. Most people would eat the steak. Not Delis. According to the opinion, he began shouting at the attendant, and then he struck her. Here's a ringside account of what happened at 30,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean (the flight was from Switzerland to Idlewild Airport, now known as Kennedy Airport)... More @ Wait A Second!: Airline meal dispute resolves assault/battery quandary |
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