Travel + Law News From Around The World:
- In case you missed them, The Volokh Conspiracy blog had a great series of posts on TSA security at airports. Here they are, by date:
- How Many Constitutional Violations Does It Take to Keep Our Planes Safe? by David Post on April 5.
- Do travelers have a right to leave airport security screening areas without the TSA’s permission? by Orin S. Kerr on April 6.
- The Fourth Amendment and Airport Security, cont’d by David Post on April 10.
- Gary Leff passed along an interesting TSA incident with overtones of First Amendment rights. Can the TSA Make You Hide ‘Offensive Symbols’ When Going Through a Checkpoint? discusses how a woman was required to cause her decorative purse to be removed from the public’s view due to its display of “pistol emblems” on the side.
- This one is perfectly ripe for a future Constitutional Law class final exam question!
- Breast-Feeding Mom Gets Settlement From TSA – Stacey Armato sued in federal court in Phoenix after a 2010 incident in which she asked the TSA to provide an alternate form of screening that would not expose her 7-month-old son’s breast milk to radiation.
- Proposed settlement:
- TSA will take steps to retrain its officers on proper breast milk-screening procedures.
- TSA will pay her $75,000, which she plans to use for her legal fees and to donate to BreastfeedLA.
- If you haven’t seen the 2010 incident, here is a YouTube upload of it:
- Proposed settlement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XhnZlmLGK8
OVERTIME
I Smell A Theft?: Dubai Airport Worker Helps Himself to Dolce & Gabbana Perfume – The airport security officer who worked in the lost and found just wanted to smell “nice” at work, stating, “I did intend to steal it. I tried the perfume for a while and liked it. I decided to use it but I did not want to steal it.”
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