Court grants airline’s motion to dismiss customer’s boarding discrimination claims

Shin v. American Airlines Group, Inc. (E.D.N.Y. Aug. 3, 2017).  The customer/plaintiff alleged that American “dramatically” refused to allow him to board a flight from DFW to Corpus Christi, Texas, “[f]or the mere fact that the Plaintiff was Korean-American,” while allowing white customers to board the flight.  In his complaint, the plaintiff alleged claims under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000d et seq.), 49 U.S.C. § 40127(a), 42 U.S.C. § 1981, the New York State Human Rights Law and the New York Civil Rights Law, as well as for misrepresentation, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing and breach of contract.  Plaintiff sought, for each claim, $1 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. In deciding American’s motion to dismiss the complaint for its failure to state an actionable claim, the court ruled that: The Title VI claim failed because…

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