Originally Posted by
Tom M.
And you can back up that it was "TSO violating policy" and that they were not following SOP? And note the judge said the "agency was overstepping their bounds", not the TSO.
Why would TSA go to court in such a case? Shouldn't they simply admit to the plaintiff that a TSO didn't follow policy? What was the TSA trying to protect by fighting the charges in court? The TSA tried to say the TSO was correct in what they did. In court, the TSA's argument was the TSO was correct in doing what they did. The court ruled otherwise.
TSA goes to court in these cases because they have an incompetent Chief Counsel, one of the worst in all of government. She is a personnel lawyer by trade, and totally out of her element at TSA.