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"We do not believe this child is at fault," the airline said Wednesday.

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[-] ChaosCoati@midwest.social 77 points 4 months ago

From the original court filing: “Defendant would show that any injuries or illnesses alleged to have been sustained by Plaintiff, Mary Doe [the 9 year old girl], were proximately caused by Plaintiff's own fault and negligence, were proximately caused by Plaintiff's use of the compromised lavatory, which she knew or should have known contained a visible and illuminated recording device.”

American Airlines is passing the blame to their “outside legal counsel.”

Parentheses and emphasis are mine.

[-] Ioughttamow@kbin.run 28 points 4 months ago

If they're old enough to toil in the mines and looms, they’re old enough to know better

Jesus christ

[-] fiat_lux@kbin.social 18 points 4 months ago

I'm going to hope this is some ChatGPT template response bullshit, because the other option is that someone chose to write this.

Even if they were an adult who might recognise an illuminated spy camera, it's not like you have enough choice in bathrooms at 30000 ft to infer something resembling consent.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago

I mean, realistically, there's just no way the airline would have been providing that defense. The PR would be a thousand times worse than the bit of payout to the 9 year olds family would be.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago

But the bell cannot be unwrung.

What a pliable bell.

[-] Davel23@fedia.io 14 points 4 months ago

Oof. You'd think a lawyer would know the correct spelling of that phrase.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

Well, a different lawyer blamed a child for being victimized, so ...

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