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More Legal Shenanigans from the Biden Administration’s Department of Education

Among the foremost threats to individual freedom in America is the abusive and oftentimes lawless behavior of federal administrative agencies, whose vast armies of overpaid bureaucrats remain unaccountable for their excesses.

Among the most familiar examples of that bureaucratic abuse is the Department of Education (DOE).  Recall, for instance, the United States Supreme Court’s humiliating rebuke last year of the Biden DOE’s effort to shift hundreds of billions of dollars of student debt from the people who actually owed them onto the backs of American taxpayers.

Even now, despite that rebuke, the Biden DOE launched an alternative scheme last month in an end-around effort to achieve that same result.

Well, the Biden DOE is now attempting to shift tens of millions of dollars of…[more]

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Home Jester's Courtroom Flying the Turbulent Skies Lands a Lawsuit
Flying the Turbulent Skies Lands a Lawsuit Print
Wednesday, October 19 2011

A passenger is suing Continental Airlines and three other carriers alleging she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and a fear of flying after experiencing a turbulent flight.

Colleen O'Neal, a resident of Lubbock, Texas, charges in her lawsuit filed in Harris County District Court that her plane traversed through tornadoes and thunderstorms shortly after departing College Station bound for Houston.  According to the lawsuit, the normally short flight took more than two hours and the plane "fell repeatedly, and felt as if it had lost power and was falling out of the sky."  O'Neal further claims she believed she was going to die.

Due to her recently acquired fear of flying, O'Neal charges that she has lost economic benefits because she cannot advance from her Texas Department of Public Safety position to a Federal Emergency Management Agency job because it would require air travel.   She is suing for physical and mental anguish, medical bills and the cost of the lawsuit.

O'Neal purchased the ticket from Continental. She is also suing United Airlines (which merged with Continental), Colgan Air (which operated the aircraft) and Pinnacle Airlines (which owns Colgan Air). 

Continental and Pinnacle officials said they had not seen the lawsuit and could not comment.

—Source:  Houston Chronicle

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