Airport Seeks Dismissal Of Pilot’s Suit Alleging Illegal Detainment For No Mask

(November 6, 2023, 1:13 PM EST) -- SPOKANE, Wash. — In a lawsuit by an airline pilot against an airport and airport police officers who attempted to enforce the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) COVID-19 masking policy as the pilot passed through security on the way to his flight, in which he alleged that he was racially profiled and unlawfully detained and that the officers illegally failed to recognize an exemption to masking requirements he had by virtue of being an airline pilot, the defendants moved for dismissal, contending that the complaint fails to state a viable claim....