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September 28, 2021
I appeared on Ohio-based WWGH radio’s “Mid-Morning Coffee Break” show with host Adam Lepp this morning to talk about our class-action lawsuit against seven airlines for discriminating against passengers who medically can’t tolerate wearing face masks. I addressed Delta Air Line’s involvement in the conspiracy to interfere with the civil rights of the disabled by proposing that all airlines share their no-fly lists of passengers who can’t or won’t wear masks.
September 27, 2021
Lucas Wall is interviewed on WUSA regarding his federal lawsuit seeking to end airline mask mandates. Wall and 12 others plan to seek a preliminary injunction this week to stop Delta and other airlines from sharing their lists of passengers banned due to their inability or refusal to obstruct their breathing
September 26, 2021
A group of 13 flyers from seven states, the District of Columbia, and Israel plan to file a motion for preliminary injunction this week asking a federal court in Orlando to stop Delta Air Lines from illegally conspiring with other carriers to share their no-fly lists of passengers who can’t or won’t wear masks.
Delta last week urged airlines to come together and form a national no-fly list of customers with disabilities who remove their masks in flight to be able to breathe freely. Plaintiffs, who Sept. 13 filed an amended civil complaint against Delta and six other major airlines in the nation’s first class-action lawsuit challenging their mask mandates, express outrage at Delta’s conduct.
September 17, 2021
The U.S. Department of Justice filed today its final brief in the country’s first lawsuit seeking to strike down the Federal Transportation Mask Mandate. The case is now in the hands of Magistrate Judge Daniel Irick at the U.S. District Court in Orlando, Florida.
“Lucas Wall and the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention greatly differ about the scientific facts regarding the efficacy of mask wearing and what Mr. Wall calls ‘the harms of forced muzzling.’ But for those who seek to use our nation’s public-transportation systems during a global pandemic, Congress has entrusted those judgments to the experts at the CDC,” the federal government argues in an effort to save the FTMM from suffering the same fate (being enjoined by courts) as the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention’s Eviction Moratorium and Conditional Sailing Order for cruiseships.
“I’m confident the court will vacate the illegal and unconstitutional Federal Transportation Mask Mandate, which CDC issued without any authority from Congress and in violation of the constitutional right to freedom of travel, to due process of law, and states’ rights under the 10th Amendment,” said plaintiff Lucas Wall, 44, of Washington, D.C. “The Supreme Court struck down the Eviction Moratorium with strong language that CDC had no power to ban evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The same law applies to the mask mandate.”
September 16, 2021
Kleanthis Andreadakis and I appeared on Adam Lepp’s radio show this afternoon to talk about our class-action lawsuit against seven airlines for discriminating against passengers who medically can’t tolerate wearing face masks.
September 15, 2021
I’m challenging the Federal Transportation Mask Mandate and International Traveler Testing Requirement in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (Wall v. CDC). I’m also suing seven airlines in a class action with 12 other plaintiffs for illegally discriminating against passengers with disabilities who can’t tolerate wearing face masks (Wall v. Southwest Airlines). Here’s media coverage of my two cases during September 2021:
September 14, 2021
A group of 13 flyers from seven states, the District of Columbia, and Israel filed a civil complaint Monday night against seven major airlines charging them with conspiring to ban tens of millions of Americans with medical condition who can’t tolerate wearing face coverings from using the nation’s aviation system. It’s the first class-action lawsuit in the country challenging airlines’ mask mandates.
“Plaintiffs are a group of disabled (and one nondisabled) airline passengers who have been restricted from flying by the defendants for more than a year because of their enforcement of mask mandates that violate numerous provisions of federal and international laws, plus breach their contracts and violate tort law and the Constitution,” according to the 227-page amended complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Orlando that charges the airlines and their executives with 30 counts of violating various laws and regulations. “The one plaintiff who does not have a disability represents a class of flyers who strongly object to forced masking as a violation of their rights under federal law and the contracts of carriage.”
August 31, 2021
A frequent traveler banned from flying because he medically can’t wear a face covering – and who has been stuck here at his mother’s for three months while he litigates the case in federal court in Orlando – asked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis today why he isn’t challenging the Federal Transportation Mask Mandate. The federal order commandeers state transit officials and police officers to enforce masks on public buses, school buses, trains, rideshare cars, and other modes in violation of DeSantis’ executive order prohibiting mask mandates.
DeSantis is scheduled to appear Wednesday with First Lady Casey DeSantis for a town hall at the Brownwood Hotel & Spa here in The Villages, where Lucas Wall, 44, of Washington, D.C., has been stranded because of the FTMM. Wall submitted a question this morning to DeSantis for tomorrow’s town event to inquire why the Florida governor – who has banned state and local governments as well as school districts from imposing mandatory maskwearing – has never challenged President Joseph Biden on his requirement that all travelers cover their face while using any form of public transportation.
August 26, 2021
The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision tonight ending the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention’s illegal Eviction Moratorium means the Federal Transportation Mask Mandate is almost certainly the next unlawful CDC pandemic order to be struck down by the courts as it’s based on the same law.
Justices ruled that CDC’s action to continue imposing an Eviction Moratorium was illegal because, among other reasons, Congress never authorized it. The same is true for the FTMM. Congress has never passed a law requiring anyone using public transportation to cover their face.
August 23, 2021
Seven airlines sued for illegally discriminating against passengers who can’t wear face masks filed arguments today in U.S. District Court not denying their actions banning disabled travelers from flying but relying on legal technicalities to avoid liability.
Southwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Allegiant Air, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines, JetBlue Airways, and Spirit Airlines all filed motions today to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Lucas Wall, 44, of Washington, D.C., who was unable to use tickets this summer he bought to fly on the carriers because of their onerous and illegal mask-exemption requirements.