American Airways has changed a legislation agency that advised a choose {that a} 9-year-old lady was negligent in failing to note {that a} telephone digicam was taped to an airplane bathroom seat.
A spokesman for the airline confirmed Friday that the Wilson Elser legislation agency is not representing American within the lawsuit filed by the lady’s household.
American has retained Kelly Hart & Hallman, a Fort Value agency that has carried out intensive work for American on different issues.
The change in attorneys got here after Wilson Elser mentioned in a courtroom doc that the lady’s accidents could possibly be blamed on her “fault and negligence” for utilizing a restroom “that she knew or ought to have identified contained a visual and illuminated recording gadget. »
A former American flight attendant is accused of luring ladies into the bathroom after taping his iPhone to a bathroom seat and pretending the seat was damaged. Estes Carter Thompson III, who was fired by the People, pleaded not responsible this week to tried little one sexual exploitation and possession of kid sexual abuse pictures.
The household of a 9-year-old lady sued American in state courtroom in Austin, Texas, after the FBI advised them movies of the lady have been discovered on a flight attendant’s telephone.
“We hope that with this new authorized illustration, American Airways will take a recent take a look at the case and at last take some accountability for what occurred to our shopper,” mentioned Paul Llewellyn, an lawyer for the lady’s household.
Llewelyn can also be representing the household of a 14-year-old boy who’s suing an American in North Carolina federal courtroom over the alleged actions of the identical flight attendant.
Wilson Elser didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
