WILLIAMS v. TRANS WORLD AIRLINES

No. 84, Docket 74-1469.

509 F.2d 942 (1975)

Robert F. WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. TRANS WORLD AIRLINES, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 10, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold L. Warner, Jr., New York City (Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside & Wolff and Bennett H. Last, New York City, on the brief), for appellee.

Melvin L. Wulf, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York City (Norman Dorsen, New York City, on the brief), for appellant.

Before HAYS, ANDERSON and MANSFIELD, Circuit Judges.


ROBERT P. ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from the district court's decision1 that defendant-appellee Trans World Airlines, Inc. (TWA) was well within its rights in refusing transportation by air to plaintiff-appellant Robert F. Williams (Williams) under 49 U.S.C. § 15112 and that TWA's refusal to carry Williams on a September 6, 1969 flight from London, England, to Detroit, Michigan for which...

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