On April 9, 2017, passenger Dr. David Dao was ticketed and boarded on a plane to fly on United flight #3411 from Chicago, IL to Louisville, KY. This was the last flight of the day between the two cities. After the flight was fully boarded and all passengers were in their seats, United’s gate agents were approached by crewmembers that were instructed to board the flight. To accommodate the crew, the agents began seeking volunteers to get off the flight and offered passengers up to $800 in compensation. While some did voluntarily deplane, United needed four more seats so a supervisor randomly selected four passengers to be “denied boarding” and removed from the flight. One of the passengers selected was Dr. Dao. He was determined to stay in his seat due to patients he had to see at a hospital in Louisville the …show more content…
Videos of the incident quickly surfaced the internet and showing a visibly injured and bloodied Dr. Dao screaming. Although there has been no lawsuit yet, when being asked whether there will be one, Dr. Dao’s lawyer responded, “Yeah, probably” as there are many legal issues with this incident. There are three key legal and ethical issues with this flight: breach of contract, assault, and utilitarianism. Whenever someone purchases a flight ticket they are agreeing to the airline’s Contract of Carriage. The contract dictates when a passenger can be denied boarding and refused transport. However, in this case the flight was not overbooked and the passenger already had his ticket scanned and boarded the flight. So, the rules on denied boarding would not apply and nowhere does the contract state that United can de-board you because it wants to fly its employees. United breached its contract and I believe will lose the lawsuit for this reason. Next, Dr. Dao may have grounds to sue under various civil rights acts such as assault. There are many videos of the incident and witnesses which make it clear that he was assaulted. Some people believe that
Assuming he spends a couple years in a jail cell and placed on the “no fly list” would be an appropriate disciplinary action. Although, he was doing for the greater good of people, it still does not give him the right to take away the feeling of security from everyone else. It cannot be stressed enough, that he endangered the lives of many innocent lives by committing this crime. When living in any country, there are always certain laws that must be followed fully, in saying whether they are morally right or wrong. Even though, many people will not agree with certain policies that each government enforces, you still have to abide by your government’s laws. Eventually, the banned items were also safely found a board in the restrooms of the tainted planes in the southern areas like; New Orleans, Louisiana, and Houston, Texas. Unfortunately, there may not be a variety of bright ways to draw attention to your beliefs, and expressing your problem to the public. The reason why Heatwole is connected to Thoreau, is to bring out the point that they both wanted to share their own beliefs with the world. They both want a better, safer place for our future generations to live in. Nevertheless, what Heatwole did was wrong. Furthermore, in following he’s footsteps, by threatening the lives of countless people and his own, and smuggling concealed items that the TSA have
Nonetheless, after the court trial, it was decided that Southwest Airline’s marketing policy that involved hiring of attractive female applicants only was a violation of Title VII under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In addition to the hiring of attractive female flight attendants, the airline company had also made it a requirement that hired applicants should only be of a maximum height of 5 feet 9 inches. Notwithstanding, the court ruled that, the restriction was a barrier to hiring of men applicants and that it was violation of the same act. As a result, the airline company set aside a $1 million fund for penalties alone after the court ordered the company to pay the plaintiffs $275,000 (Justia,
Flight attendants aboard the plane warned federal agents that the Indian-Americans looked suspicious; therefore, the agents took Hebshi into custody to be searched and questioned. The flight attendants and the federal agents were just trying to make sure that everyone on board the flight was safe. Despite the motives, in any circumstance, racial profiling is wrong. The problem with racial profiling in this case is the woman and the two men made it past extensive airport security; therefore, if they were exhibiting any suspicious behavior it would have already been dealt with by security professionals. The problem with racial profiling in every case is that it violates the natural rights of the person that is being victimized.
When discussing the concept of contract law, there exist two bodies of legal rules that may apply to the contract. These bodies are the common law of contracts and Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code or the UCC. The common law of contracts is court made and is constantly changing, but the UCC is required in every state within the U.S.A. It is important to know which one to use and when, as well as what the differences between them are.
They wanted him to cut his hair, which went against his religious beliefs. This may have been a valid request if they could have demonstrated a safety or health issue associated with the hairstyle. If the company could have demonstrated a safety issue associated with the policy, an exception to the policy for an employee would be considered undue hardship (Marcum & Perry, 2010). In this case, FedEx wanted him to cut his hair to maintain a professional image, not for safety reasons. FedEx also offered Polk a different job position, which gave him no direct contact with the customers. If he took this job position, he would have to take a cut in pay. An employee should not have to change job positions or pay cut because of their religious beliefs. Polk refused both options was terminated by the company for failure to comply with the dress code policy. This is a form of religious discrimination and violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of
Primarily, the employee was in violation of federal laws, which protect employees regarding slanderous or racially remarks. According to Title VII, it is...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, is specific to this case concerning Marwan’s conduct and is clearly stated under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. This regulation protects employees against workplace discrimination on the basis of gender, race, creed, origin and religion and relates to all employers whether local, state or national. Organizations that employ fifteen or more employees has to stand by this regulation (Civil Rights Act, n.d.). According to this law, a commission called Equal Employment Opportunities Commission has been arranged, to protect individuals in contradiction of discrimination and enforce this as well as additional pertinent laws such as discrimination. Discrimination within the workplace has been in existence for a long time and was initiated by the U.S. Authorities once hearing several cases of harassment. The discrimination law protects applicants, employers and employees. The law states that no employer can take recruitment decision solely on the basis of the race, origin, gender, handicap of the applicant and is unable to take favor over anyon...
After the American tragedy of September 11, 2001, airport security became a heated debate that continues today. America must protect itself from terrorist attacks, but some homeland security methods are better than others. In January of 2010, the Obama administration declared that airport passengers from 14 countries, including Pakistan, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia, would be subjected to rigorous screening before flights into the United States (Schneier). Basically, airport security employees would have the right to discriminate against passengers of Arab descent because of the country they were born in. Attempts to improve airport security through racial profiling are unjust, unwarranted, and completely unnecessary. Innocent passengers do not deserve harassment at airport security simply because of their race. Although supporters of these measures argue that they will greatly reduce the chances of terrorist attacks, not all terrorists are of Arab descent. There are also simple strategies in recruitment that terrorist organizations can take to outmaneuver these airport security measures. Airport security can certainly be improved to protect the country, but racial profiling in airports is not the answer.
Stewart, D.R. "TSA Exempts Pilots, Flight Attendants from New Security Rules." Tulsa World (OK) 27 Nov. 2010: Newspaper Source Plus. Web. 7 May 2014.
The point of writing this paper is to show the different types of conditioning. It is also to make people better understand Maslow's hierarchy. Maslow explains basic needs for the normal person in his hierarchy. Classical and Opperant conditiong are shown in A Clockwork Orange. The film shows how Alex goes up and down the hierarchy. The film also shows in great detail what happens to Alex after classical conditioning. There will be further explanation and details on Watson and Pavlov and how they accomplished classical conditioning. B.F Skinner and Thorndike will show operant conditioning. The film shows good examples of these too.
Over the years the men and women that risk their lives by boarding planes under a false identity to protect us have been called many things. The names range from simple, “Sky Marshal” to more complicated “Civil Aviation Security Liaison Officers.” No matter what they have been called through the years one thing has always stayed the same. The United States Federal Air Marshals have always been a group of our finest law enforcement officers that give up the luxury traditional police work to sit next to crying babies and old talkative ladies all day. They do this with one goal in mind, to keep the airways safe for private citizens to enjoy the luxury of travel. “The history of the air marshals is closely rooted with the history of hijackings and bombings targeting commercial aircraft. Some of the bombings and hijackings throughout history had more of an impact than others on Federal Air Marshal tactics, manpower and security procedures. These events and the responses of those in civil aviation and the US government are essential to understand the need for air marshals as a last line of defense.” (Biles, 2013) With the rise of crime in the aviation sector the US government has gone to the Federal Air Marshals more times than not for protection of its citizens. It has not always been easy for them and they have not had the best funding around but as you will see throughout this paper, The US Federal Air Marshals have always answered when called upon.
They could also say that they took protective measures to protect the patient and the family of the patient. However, the article stated that the wife was still able to tell it was her husband fighting for his life, and the article also said friends of the family noticed it too. Clearly his privacy wasn’t protected beings his wife, children, and friends new who he was right away. Although they thought his privacy was protected, where was the consent from Mr. Chanko to even be able to film him? There wasn’t, he wasn’t able to give consent because unfortunately he was fighting for his life. I question the judgement of the doctors, the hospital, and the media crew. I question this because of their moral judgement, and reasoning behind why they allowed the media to enter the hospital and film people. When people go visit their doctor, they feel they have exposed themselves; from being in gowns, having examinations, giving out personal information, poked and prodded. I just don’t understand how someone can overrule the patient’s rights and dignity by deciding it was ok to allow to film the incident until his death was pronounced, it is extremely
On April 9, 2017 after boarding a United Airline’s flight from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, Dr. David Dao was forcibly removed from his seat due to the overbooking of flight 3411. Dao was not simply escorted out, but appeared in a viral video to be bleeding from his nose while he was dragged down the aisle of the plane. The 69 year old doctor sued the airline and eventually reached an undisclosed settlement. The handling of the situation, from a public relations standpoint was not only poorly executed by the CEO, but handled in an untimely manner. I will explain what they did wrong as well as give my suggestions for how it could have been handled better.
The basic law of a contract is an agreement between two parties or more, to deliver a service or a product. And reach a consensus about the terms and conditions that is enforced by law and a contract can be only valid if it is lawful other than that there can’t be a contract. For a contract to exist the parties must have serious intentions, agreement, contractual capacity meaning a party must be able to carry a responsibility, lawful, possibility of performance and formalities. Any duress, false statements, undue influence or unconscionable dealings could make a contract unlawful and voidable.
A contract is an agreement between two parties in which one party agrees to perform some actions in return of some consideration. These promises are legally binding. The contract can be for exchange of goods, services, property and so on. A contract can be oral as well as written and also it can be part oral and part written but it is useful to have written contract otherwise issues can be created in future. But both the written as well as oral contract is legally enforceable. Also if there is a breach of contract, there are certain remedies for that which are discussed later in the assignment. There are certain elements which need to be present in a contract. These elements are discussed in the detail in the assignment. (Clarke,