In re American Airlines Privacy Litigation

370 F. Supp. 2d 552 (2005)

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In re American Airlines Privacy Litigation

United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
370 F. Supp. 2d 552 (2005)

Facts

During the process of issuing tickets, American Airlines, Inc. (American) (defendant) gathered personally identifiable information about its passengers, such as names, addresses, and credit-card numbers. American provided this personal information to Airline Automation, Inc. (defendant) to transmit to the federal Transportation Security Administration. Airline Automation also provided the passengers’ personal information to four private research companies (defendants). Airline Automation and American disagreed about whether American had authorized the disclosure to the research companies. A group of passengers (plaintiffs) sued, claiming that disclosing their personal information to the research companies had invaded their privacy in violation of (1) the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) (sometimes referred to as the Stored Communications Act), (2) state tort laws protecting private information, and (3) the privacy agreement in the passengers’ ticket contracts with American. American, Airline Automation, and the research companies moved for summary judgment on all the claims.

Rule of Law

Issue

Holding and Reasoning (Fitzwater, J.)

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