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Old Sep 19, 2014, 12:20 pm
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Originally Posted by DC777Fan
Insofar as monetary compensation... perhaps. But if Kuwait Air wants to keep flying to the United States, they'll need to address a lawsuit against them eventually--and they may well prevail in court.

As far as I understand it, though, the law suit is a US Citizen against the US DOT?
That's strange. The lawsuit is about the Kuwait Air website not having Israel in the drop down box for nationality so he couldn't buy a ticket. Not sure what the DOT has to do with that.

But our legal system is a bit screwy.
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