Law Students

FAA penalizes Southwest Airlines

By Scott Felsenthal et al.

The FAA penalizing an airline has some increased significance to me due to the fact that I am currently studying Administrative Law and regardless of what the result of the adjudication may be, it is interesting to see the Executive power in action.

The Federal Aviation Administration ("FAA") is an agency regulating safety in aviation throughout our great nation.  For a brief statement of what the the FAA does, click here. 

The FAA recently imposed a $10.2 million civil penalty on Southwest Airlines for their alleged failure to meet inspection requirements.  Hmmm, might this bother some people?  Southwest is appealing the decision and penalty.

Read the latest about this controversy by clicking here.

Full post as published by The Legal Scoop on March 12, 2008 (boomark / email).