Some airline upper mgmts can do much more permanent damage to thousands of careers, using "legal hired-guns" or financial consultants (given a very 'shiny' retainer...), armed with pens and briefcases, than any bunch of street thugs. The most dangerous ones often wear expensive three-piece suits, with shoes from Milan.
Some judges also exhibit strong biases. Check certain rulings by some Department of Transportation federal judges in the 80's or 90s-quickly followed by lucrative employment with Texas Air Corporation. The same company which received favorable rulings; coincidence, with employment offered only AFTER the rulings? There could not have been any pressure or inducements
from the White House.
Texas is widely known as an anti-labor state, among many others. Some judges are "cherry-picked", not only by AMR years ago, and we are NOT talking about 'Schwarzwaelder Kirschtorte' from the hill country.
