Former Houston hand surgeon Michael Brown is planning a change of plea on federal charges that he choked a flight attendant and threatened to strip naked on a flight from…
Jul 11, 2013 7:20 PM CDT
When Bill Oliver started work on June 1, 1963 at Martin, Pringle, Oliver, Wallace & Bauer, there were only seven attorneys at the Kansas law firm.
The…
May 30, 2013 10:06 PM CDT
A tech worker who took it all off at the Portland, Ore., airport last year as a protest of security measures, was acquitted at trial later in 2012 by a…
May 10, 2013 10:15 PM CDT
Thinking ahead, a woman in her mid-90s has raised the question of whether the mileage points she has accumulated with a major airline can be used for her final flight…
May 1, 2013 5:22 PM CDT
An airline passenger who says his refusal to order a soda on a computer touch screen led to his being detained and questioned by authorities after the plane landed has…
Apr 30, 2013 6:29 PM CDT
It appears that eating utensils—or table knives, at the very least—will remain banned as carry-on items on U.S. airlines flights, under safety rules adopted after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist…
Mar 6, 2013 9:36 PM CST
A lawsuit claiming United Continental Holdings breached a contract with high-mileage frequent flier customers has gotten the green light.
U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber of Chicago ruled last week that…
Feb 5, 2013 5:40 PM CST
Maria-Vittoria Carminati: “Space tourist flights are scheduled to start in the next few years at $90,000 to $200,000 a seat.” Photo by Jack Thompson.
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The hatchet in a checked bag for an airline passenger traveling through Los Angeles from Japan last week, en route to Boston, was legal, according to authorities. Ditto the gas…
Oct 12, 2012 7:23 PM CDT
Should humans who meet extraterrestrials be quarantined? Who pays if satellites fall to the ground, hurting people or damaging property? Space lawyers are raising the issues and providing the answers.
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Aug 9, 2012 10:30 AM CDT
Joe Gutheinz retired more than a decade ago from his job as a senior agent for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s office of inspector general.
But the Houston attorney…
May 14, 2012 6:29 PM CDT
A New Mexico woman who said she was ordered off a Delta Connections flight in Vermont in 2006 after she refused an offended flight attendant’s demand to cover herself with…
Mar 16, 2012 9:25 PM CDT
After some women passengers complained that they were being singled out for body scans by Transportation Safety Administration agents at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, a privacy filter was installed…
Feb 15, 2012 8:57 PM CST
A Groupon Pioneer Looks Back
On Jan. 19, 2011, when An ethics subcommittee of the North Carolina State Bar was deciding whether a lawyer in the state could ethically offer…
Jan 20, 2012 2:33 PM CST