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First Circuit Upholds Racial Profiling

Late last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled in Cerqueira v. American Airlines, overturning a jury verdict for a passenger who alleged racial discrimination in a pilot's decision to remove him from a flight and an airline supervisor's denial of the opportunity to rebook his flight. The plaintiff, a computer programmer of Portuguese descent, reportedly appears Middle Eastern, and was removed from the plane because he sat next to two Israeli passengers whose erratic behav read more

Full post as published by ACS Blog on January 16, 2008 (boomark / email).