Originally Posted by
GUWonder
On what basis would SCOTUS be able to overturn a federal passenger bill of rights? Other than Congress hypothetically passing some hypothetical legislation with some hypothetically anti-constitutional element, I don't think it necessarily so that a federal passenger bill of rights would make its way to SCOTUS or be undone by SCOTUS (or even lower courts).
Originally Posted by
CollegeFlyer
On what grounds?
just my humble opinion that if it got to that level, the current scotus (n.b. "current"*) would either refer the case back to the lower court or find a way to say that it infringed a hardship (or something similar) on the airlines-similar to what happened with the ny pax bor (but that was a state law overturned on the grounds that it was state trying to mandate something federal. do i want to see a pax bor, 100% yes but i don't think it will ever happen but on the oft chance that it does, it will be a disasster for pax as congress will find a way to screw it up (*and yes, i'm trying to avoid an omni-ish comment
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