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Florida Father Suing TSA Appears on Fox News after Frontier Refused to Board 4-Year-Old Autistic Son

The father of a 4-year-old autistic boy denied boarding Saturday morning by Frontier Airlines at Orlando International Airport appeared on “Fox News at Night” early today to discuss the incident and his lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration’s Federal Transportation Mask Mandate with anchor Shannon Bream.

Frontier refused to allow the family of four to board a flight from Orlando to Hartford, Connecticut, Saturday because their autistic 4-year-old son, Michael Jr., can’t cover his face. This happened despite the fact Michael Jr. has a doctor’s note saying he’s exempt from mask mandates, which was submitted to Frontier in advance of the flight.


Frontier Refuses to Board 4-Year-Old Autistic
Boy at Orlando Who’s Suing TSA over Masks

Frontier Airlines this morning refused to allow a family of four to board a flight from Orlando to Hartford, Connecticut, because their autistic 4-year-old son can’t cover his face. This happened despite the fact Michael Seklecki Jr. has a doctor’s note saying he’s exempt from mask mandates, which was submitted to Frontier in advance of the flight in addition to other paperwork.

The Seklecki family must fly often to New England for Michael Jr.’s specialized medical care. Today parents Michael Seklecki Sr. and Samantha Grabowski and their younger son, Noah, were booked on a Frontier flight to Hartford, were the Michael Sr.’s grandparents were going to pick them up and drive them tomorrow to Massachusetts for Michael Jr.’s appointment Monday afternoon at Boston Children’s Hospital.


American Calls Police, Bans Disabled Man
for Asking for Mask Exemption after Fainting

American Airlines appears to have banned a Kentucky frequent traveler who attempted to check in Thursday for a flight from Ontario to Louisville via Dallas after he asked for a mask exemption and noted he had fainted earlier that morning in the airport when forced to muzzle himself.

“I warned you that putting this mask on could possibly make me faint and you’re okay with that?” Michael Faris of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, asked the American check-in agent, who refused to disclose her name. Faris captured the incident on video.

“I’m calling the police,” the American agent said in response to Faris’ mask-exemption request. “They’re going to come talk to you cause I’m done talking to you.”


TSA Adds to Terrorist Watchlist Kentucky Man
Who Sued Agency 2 Days Ago over Mask Mandate

The Transportation Security Administration appears to have placed a frequent flyer on its terrorist watchlist after he filed suit Tuesday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit in Cincinnati challenging the Federal Transportation Mask Mandate.

TSA put Michael Faris of Kentucky through a lengthy process known as “Secondary Security Screening Selectee,” noted on his boarding pass by the code “SSSS.” During the extended search, he was patted down for more than five minutes and every item was removed from his carry-on bag. TSA officers even swabbed inside his wallet.

Three TSA officers walked Faris to the gate, where United was holding the airplane bound for Denver for him. A United agent told him he had to put on a mask before stepping into the jetway, ignoring his medical exemption. While walking down the jetbridge, Faris, who suffers from Generalized Anxiety Disorder, had a panic attack and fainted, collapsing to the floor. His elbow and knee were bruised.


12 Flyers & Ex-Flight Attendant File 6 Lawsuits
Across the Nation Challenging TSA Mask Mandate

A group of 13 flyers from nine states and the District of Columbia filed six lawsuits today charging the Transportation Security Administration with exceeding its legal authority by continuing to extend a requirement that all public-transportation passengers don face masks. The coordinated effort by a dozen disabled Americans and a former flight attendant who quit rather than enforce the Federal Transportation Mask Mandate used a special legal provision to file directly in six circuits of the U.S. Courts of Appeals.

At the direction of President Joseph Biden, TSA put the FTMM into effect Feb. 1. It was set to expire May 11, but got extended until Sept. 13. TSA then continued the requirement to Jan. 18, 2022. Petitioners ask the courts to declare the TSA orders illegal and unconstitutional to ensure they can never be extended again.

“TSA’s function is limited by law to address security threats. Congress has never given the agency power to regulate the public health and welfare,” the petitioners argue. “Wearing face masks has nothing whatsoever to do with transportation security.”


JetBlue Bans Disabled Man Suing to
Stop Mask Discrimination from Flying

JetBlue Airways appears to have placed a disabled man suing seven airlines over their discriminatory mask policies on its no-fly list. A JetBlue supervisor said Wednesday night Lucas Wall’s ticket to fly from Orlando, Florida, home to Washington, D.C., Oct. 25 was canceled by the carrier’s “corporate security system.”

Wall, 44, has been stuck in Florida since early June, when Southwest Airlines and the Transportation Security Administration refused to grant him a mask exemption at Orlando International Airport. He sued the federal government June 7 to strike down the Federal Transportation Mask Mandate. A week later, he filed a lawsuit against Southwest, JetBlue, and five other airlines for their illegal discriminatory mask policies that prohibit those who are medically unable to cover their faces from flying.


Wall on WWGH Radio Talking About Mask
Class-Action Lawsuit Against 7 Airlines

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.


WUSA Reports on Lucas Wall’s Effort to
Block Airlines from Sharing No-Fly Lists

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


Flyers to Seek Injunction Blocking Delta’s Conspiracy with Other Airlines to Ban Maskless Passengers

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.


Fate of Federal Transportation Mask Mandate
Now in the Hands of U.S. Magistrate Judge

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.”