The case is Brandenberg v. El Al Israel Airlines. The plaintiff, a 72-year old Jewish grandmother, claims that two airlines were negligent by not treating her with particular care during her travels. This doesn't seem too bad up front, but at the deposition, despite the fact that she could not remember the sequence of events that she's claiming constituted the airline's negligence, she was very clear on the fact that they had done her wrong.
At the deposition, the attorney for British Airlines (the other airline being sued) asked her (among other things):
1. Do you know of any factual basis to support your allegations?
2. Can you tell me in your own words what the basis of your claim is?
3. Did British Airways do anything to you that was not in accordance with the way you thought you should be treated?
Plaintiff declined to answer all of these. Now just imagine being the British Airways lawyer giving the deposition. You have an angry, crotchety, completely uncooperative Jewish grandmother across from you, refusing to answer any of the questions that are essential to the ability to form a defense. I don't know about you, but I'd be rueing the day I first picked up a law book if I was him.
In other news, I made a kitty friend. This is gonna be crucial...
May all your hits be crits,
B
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