Litigator Whines, Fly Me! (Update)
Simple Justice: Once again, shame rains down on trial lawyers because some overly-sensitive litigator can’t understand the word “NO”. According to the AP report:
Attorney Richard Roth says not only did he and his family arrive in Buenos Aires, Argentina, almost three days late, he had to spend unplanned thousands of dollars on food, hotels and transportation, and buy tickets for another airline.
And because Delta misplaced his luggage, Roth’s lawsuit says, he had to buy new clothes for himself and family members after arriving in Buenos Aires.
Though he was promised Delta would bring his luggage, Roth says he had to drive to the airport in Buenos Aires to look for and retrieve his bags himself.
So here’s another he-man trial lawyer who thinks he can muscle the airlines with a lawsuit just because he had the patience of a gnat. His bags were misplace. Like it never happened to anyone else.
But what really pushed his buttons was that some gatekeeper, responsible for hundred of other people, wouldn’t bend over backwards at his command.
In Atlanta, say court papers filed Friday in Manhattan’s state Supreme Court, a gate agent refused to let Roth and his family onto the jet for the connecting flight, although the plane was sitting at the gate with the door open.
Roth says his cousin, already on the plane, told him by cellphone there were several empty seats. When Roth asked the agent to speak to the pilot, he replied, “The pilot is not in charge here. I am. All the pilot does is fly the plane.”
How dare anyone defy the litigator. Don’t they know how important he is? Don’t they realize they should cower when he speaks? If he says he wants to speak to the pilot, then the gate agent ought to…