Non-refundable tickets + Jury Duty = ?
I think I may actually have a question that has never before been discussed:
I have a non-refundable ticket to an international destination later this year. I booked this trip about a week ago. Yesterday, I received a summons to appear for jury duty several days before the start of my trip (this is actually a postponement from an earlier deferment). The date stamp on the summons will prove that I was summoned for this particular date after I had purchased the ticket.
Since I'm legally required to appear, will I have any bargaining leverage with Delta in the event that the trial runs past my departure date? Or do they not care about legally-binding, mandatory obligations?