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...such passenger, on April 28,1972, was Ralph Nader, bête noir of the American business establishment, who showed up at the Washington National Airport just five minutes before Allegheny Airlines flight 864 was to take off for Hartford. Nader was on a tight schedule to appear at two consumer rallies in Connecticut. He had no seat...
...Nader demanded to know whether standby passengers had been boarded, was told instead that the airline would fly him to Philadelphia by air taxi to connect with another flight due to arrive in Hartford two hours later. This Nader refused, and in due course he filed suit against Allegheny...
...turned out that Allegheny had sold 107 tickets for the 100 seats on flight 864, typical of industry practice designed to compensate for "no-shows." The central issue of Nader's suit was a charge of fraudulent misrepresentation by the airline in failing to notify passengers of deliberate overbooking...
...first finding in the suit, U.S. District Judge Charles Richey awarded Nader $10 in compensatory damages and $25,000 in punitive damages; another $51 compensatory and $25,000 punitive damages went to the Connecticut citizens group that sponsored the rallies Nader was unable to reach. However, the Circuit Court of Appeals set aside this judgment, holding that lawsuits like Nader's should not be decided until the Civil Aeronautics Board, which has been studying the mirror evils of no-show and overbooking for years, had more time to rule on appropriate penalties for overbooking. But last week the Supreme...
...efforts are under way to get anti-nuclear measures on the ballot in at least seven other states: Arizona, Maine, Michigan, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma and Washington. The chances that any will be passed have obviously been weakened by the California defeat. A few months ago, Consumerist Ralph Nader predicted that public opposition within five years would bring all construction of nuclear power plants in the U.S. to a dead halt; that now seems an empty boast...