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Carlsbad Woman Suing TSA for 'Humiliating' Search
KOB.com reports Carlsbad resident Adrienne Durso is suing the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) after a pat-down in August at the Albuquerque International Sunport.
In a telephone interview, she told the TV station the search was "heavily concentrating on my breast area where I told her I had a mastectomy the year previous, and it just seemed to go on and on."
According to KOB, Durso said she felt "humiliated" as the extensive pat-down happened in front of her 17-year-old son and hundreds of other travelers.
"I felt as though I didn't have any rights other than I had to stand there and let them do what they wanted to my body," she told the TV station.
Click here (pdf) to read the entire lawsuit.
They are demanding a jury trial, not sure if that's standard or not in these type of things.
Looks like this one got tossed out for being filed in the wrong court.
The Transportation Security Administration has won a round in a lawsuit filed by three citizens challenging TSA’s use of “advanced imaging technology” (AIT) and “aggressive pat-downs” to screen passengers at airports. (Durso, et al. v. Napolitano and Pistole, D.D.C. Civil Action 10-02066 (HHK), 7/5/11)
The court has tossed the lawsuit as requested by TSA’s motion to dismiss that argued the case was in the wrong court. (Opinion p. 1)
In short, the court agreed with TSA that “because the challenged screening procedures are employed pursuant to a TSA order, the U.S. courts of appeals have exclusive jurisdiction over plaintiffs’ challenges thereto.” (p. 1)