A passenger who says he was elbowed, doused in wine, and then berated by a flight attendant aboard an American Airlines flight has filed a federal lawsuit seeking more than $75,000, and the airline's response, he alleges, was to accuse him of misconduct. David Cruz was flying from Miami to Los Angeles in September 2025 […] The post American Airlines sued after crew allegedly moved drunk passenger next to traveler, then blamed the victim appeared first on American Almanac .
A passenger who says he was elbowed, doused in wine, and then berated by a flight attendant aboard an American Airlines flight has filed a federal lawsuit seeking more than $75,000, and the airline's response, he alleges, was to accuse him of misconduct. David Cruz was flying from Miami to Los Angeles in September 2025 on a discounted standby "buddy pass", a travel benefit available because his mother works as a quality control inspector for American Airlines. He sat in seat 17B with an empty seat beside him. That empty seat did not stay empty for long. Crew members transferred an intoxicated passenger who had already been involved in an altercation further back in the cabin into seat 17A, right next to Cruz, rather than restraining the…Open
In the new documentary “FreeFall: A Reckoning for Boeing”, Boeing’s extent of manufacturing issues and retaliation against whistleblowers is revealed. The film’s director, documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy, joins Alex Witt to discuss.
eBay agreed to pay $55.7 million to a Massachusetts couple whose lives were upended by a coordinated harassment campaign orchestrated by former company employees, a scheme that included bloody masks, live insects, and physical surveillance. The settlement, announced Tuesday, ends a civil lawsuit brought by Ina and David Steiner, who ran a small e-commerce trade […] The post eBay pays $55.7 million to settle with Massachusetts couple targeted in employee cyberstalking campaign appeared first on American Almanac .
eBay agreed to pay $55.7 million to a Massachusetts couple whose lives were upended by a coordinated harassment campaign orchestrated by former company employees, a scheme that included bloody masks, live insects, and physical surveillance. The settlement, announced Tuesday, ends a civil lawsuit brought by Ina and David Steiner, who ran a small e-commerce trade newsletter called ECommerceBytes from their home in Natick, Massachusetts. Their critical coverage of eBay apparently so enraged company leadership that federal prosecutors say executives launched a systematic effort to intimidate and silence them. Seven former eBay employees were charged by the Department of Justice in 2020, and some went to prison. Under the terms CBS Boston…Open
