Originally Posted by
jkhuggins
Originally Posted by
TWA884
Originally Posted by
jkhuggins
You mean, other than the fact that (a) he doesn't know the name of the other passenger to file suit against, (b) it wasn't the other passenger who acted to take him off the plane, and (c) she'll have plausible deniability (which is all you need in a civil suit)?
As to your first assertion, she can be sued as Jane Doe, an unknown defendant, and later amend the complaint to allege her true name after her identity is obtained from the airline in the pretrial discovery process.
The other two points are factual issues best left for the fact finder - judge or jury - in the trial.
If you're willing to spend the money to bring the civil suit. That's a lot of money to risk at the hands of a jury that might be just as paranoid as the defendant was.
I was just pointing out that it was legally possible to sue her. The chances that she has sufficient assets or insurance to make this a worthy endeavor are slim to none.
Besides, he is a rising star at the University of Pennsylvania who was awarded the 2007 Kravis Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, and a winner of the 2015 Carlo Alberto Medal for Best Italian Economist Under 40; I doubt that he'd want to risk his professional reputation by pursuing what many in academia may perceive to be a frivolous lawsuit.