parkfell, certainly there are odd and even inexplicable (sometimes) things about the law courts and overall legal system, in the U.S. Still, I'd want to read the complaint in this case (assuming it's been filed) before trying to say anything useful with regard to the most significant question in the largest context relevant here: what claims and what plan of attack is best calculated to reach into, or at least toward, the deep pocket (Amazon)? Of course serving the client's interests is the central question but that's just the root; there are lots of branches.
As a side note, ordinarily in litigation the discovery process is dull, drab and boring. But once in a while really juicy, even captivating stuff is known to be "out there"....a 'train wreck', I read somewhere? Hmm, could that be tied to the Railway Labor Act, which governs airline labor relations?