WTC: Suing Boeing

by **DoomYoshi** on Fri Jul 19, 2013 3:31 pm

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/15/19489403-world-trade-center-developer-seeks-billions-in-911-damages-from-airlines?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=t.co

Da fuq?

by **saxitoxin** on Fri Jul 19, 2013 3:38 pm

U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein — who's in charge of most of the hundreds of 9/11-related cases — said he would rule after closing arguments Wednesday in the non-jury trial.

Born 1933 in New York, NY / He was nominated by President Bill Clinton on May 15, 1998, to a seat vacated by Louis L. Stanton; Confirmed by the Senate on October 21, 1998, and received his commission on October 22, 1998. He took senior status on January 31, 2011.

http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid ... instate=na

So poor Judge Hellerstein is 80 years old, has been retired for 2 years, and yet he's trapped adjudicating these cases into his grave ...

by **Woodruff** on Fri Jul 19, 2013 3:41 pm

DoomYoshi wrote:http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/15/19489403-world-trade-center-developer-seeks-billions-in-911-damages-from-airlines?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=t.co

Da fuq?

Seems awfully frivolous.

by **Agent 86** on Fri Jul 19, 2013 3:58 pm

The rich get richer and the poor..ah f*ck them. The American way :lol:

by **BigBallinStalin** on Fri Jul 19, 2013 5:09 pm

If they could sue the people/organization who (1) caused Al-Qaeda to target the US, and (2) failed to properly screen for those terrorists, then I'd have no problem with that.

('course, the DoD, CIA, NSA, FBI, TSA, US Customs, and all politicians who approved of sending weapons to the mujahideen would be held accountable).

I don't see how Boeing is largely at fault here--given the other parties' much greater responsibility in the matter.

by **Jdsizzleslice** on Fri Jul 19, 2013 5:12 pm

BigBallinStalin wrote:I don't see how Boeing is largely at fault here--given the other parties' much greater responsibility in the matter.

by **BigBallinStalin** on Fri Jul 19, 2013 5:18 pm

were liable for failing to intercept the hijackers on 9/11; and that the airlines were liable for failing to protect passengers and property after the hijackers took over.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's a federal law which prohibits pilots from having guns (they used to be armed)---and the armed airliners are only provided through the government.... so given these constraints (Law + state-backed monopoly), then how can the airlines be liable for the unintended consequences of stupid government policy?

(I wonder if the courts will side with the airliners while admonishing the government for its blunders...)

by **warmonger1981** on Sat Jul 20, 2013 8:40 am

Sue the government since they gave al-qaeda 6 billion from 1989-1992. Or the CIA since they over saw bin laden when he was on dialysis in 1999.

by **Dukasaur** on Sun Jul 21, 2013 1:04 am

I was in a really, really slow elevator in a small building last week, and I remarked to another guy, "It seems the smaller the building the slower the elevator. The elevators in the World Trade Centre zoom up and down 50 floors in the time this pathetic thing does one floor."

Quoth he, "The elevators at the World Trade Centre don't zoom up and down any more."

Just one of those disconcerting moments when you realize times have changed, and things you know for certain aren't so certain any more.