AIRLINES’ LAWYERS FORGOT TO APPEAL THE ISSUE Today, June 6, 2022, Administrative Law Judge Scott R. Morris ordered Delta Air Lines to publish to its 13,500 pilots a legal decision finding that the airline had used compulsory psychiatric examination as a “weapon” against Karlene Petitt after she internally raised safety issues related to the
...Dear Ms. Smith: I am following up on the Association’s July 11, 2019 letter to you regarding First Officer Karlene Petitt’s AIR21 case. As you know from her correspondence to you of last week, the Department of Labor’s Administrative Review Board (ARB) has affirmed a finding from an Administrative Law Judge decision that Delta retaliated
...ORDER OF REMAND PER CURIAM. Karlene Petitt (Complainant) filed a complaint under the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century1 (AIR 21), and its implementing regulations,2 alleging that her employer, Delta Airlines (Respondent), had unlawfully discriminated against her under the AIR 21’s whistleblower protection provisions. After a formal hearing, an
...Our law firm took on the case of Petitt v. Delta Air Lines not just because of our deep sympathy for Karlene Petitt’s determination to report non-compliance with federal aviation standards, but also due to our concern that Delta’s response to her efforts degrade airline safety. In a decision dated December 21, 2020, federal Administrative
...A U.S. Labor Department judge says the head of the Federal Aviation Administration helped Delta Air Lines retaliate against a pilot who raised safety concerns while he was an executive with the airline… Click below for full article https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/arbitrator-rules-faa-chief-aided-retaliation-case-74940157
...A Labor Department ruling determined that before becoming head of the Federal Aviation Administration, Steve Dickson participated in efforts by Delta Air Lines Inc management to wrongly use a psychiatric evaluation to retaliate against a pilot who raised safety concerns. The lengthy decision by a department administrative law judge concluded that Mr. Dickson, as
...In a decision dated December 21, 2020, federal Administrative Law Judge Scott R. Morris found Delta Air Lines, Inc. guilty of having used a compulsory psychiatric examination as a “weapon” against Dr. Karlene Petitt after she raised safety issues related to the airline’s flight operations. Dr. Petitt has been a pilot for over forty years, has a
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