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Airlines get sued constantly.

And the lawsuits go all the way from the utterly ridiculous to the legitimate we really have a case level.

And that's this one I'm going to tell you about and

this is a totally legitimate lawsuit against jet blue and i don't know how jet blue is going to

defend this one so you've got a 51 year old woman uh oxana kirichenko and she sued JetBlue after she and her elderly husband were subjected to what the lawsuit says is an unexplainable level of cruel humiliation and ridicule by a Jet Blue crew member.

And here's what happened.

They're into first class and they bring along Pier, their 23-pound French

bulldog to sit with him. And the crew member says, no, you can't have your dog with you. And they say,

yes, we can. No, you can't. Now, Pier is a service dog, not an emotional support animal, an honest to God, a certified service dog.

And the federal government says that with a service animal, guess what?

They can go any place that you can go.

And so they got into it. They're literally on the

airplane. There is such a flight, and the plane is taking off. So the plane turns around,

returns to the terminal, and the Kurichinkos were removed from the airplane physically.

And they argued that the couple's federally protected right to be accompanied on the flight

where their service animal was violated.

And interestingly enough, that was on the way back.

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