Washington Times Editorial

"Passage of the Aviation Transportation and Security Act in November 2001 sounded the death knell for Huntleigh USA's business. Under this legislation, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) took over the tasks of screening passengers and baggage at airports, putting the Huntleigh company out of business...

...Huntleigh USA filed a takings case in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, seeking just compensation for a taking of its property. The government is arguing that it is not constitutionally obligated to pay just compensation for the property that it had taken because the airline industry is "pervasively regulated." It would be a perverse notion, indeed, if civil liberties could be extinguished by exercise of government power through extensive regulation, when the very purpose of civil liberties is to limit government power in order to protect the rights of the individual."

I hope Huntleigh wins too. It's not their fault that 9/11 happened. The TSA should have never been created.