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A Washington D.C. man has filed a lawsuit against the federal government and Orlando Airport calling for the government to immediately stop enforcing the national mask mandate, saying it is unconstitutional.
The lawsuit was filed in Orlando on June 7 by Plaintiff Lucas Wall, who alleges that he was left stranded in The Villages in Florida, where he was caring for his mother, after he was not allowed to board a flight after declining to put on a face mask. Wall had a ticket on a Southwest flight to fly from Orlando to Fort Lauderdale.
Wall alleges that the federal mask mandate enforced by Orlando Airport, Transportation Security Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and President Joe Biden (all defendants in the lawsuit) is unconstitutional, especially while traveling within a state.
Wall is bringing the lawsuit in an attempt to end enforcement of the Federal Transportation Mask Mandate (FTMM) and the International Traveler Testing Requirement (ITTR), saying they violate the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).
“The defendants’ goal of easing the impact of COVID-19 is laudable but grossly misguided,” Wall says in the class action lawsuit.
“In attempting to mandate masks for all American travelers and to require anyone flying into the United States – even those fully vaccinated and/or with natural immunity – to obtain an expensive coronavirus test within three days of departing a foreign nation, defendants have acted without statutory authorization or following the rulemaking process required by the Administrative Procedure Act.”
According to Wall’s lawsuit, the FTMM and ITTR “are arbitrary and capricious” because the federal agencies failed to reasonably explain why other measures were insufficient to tackle the “rapidly declining COVID-19 infection and death rates.”
Wall had planned to travel to see friends and family during the summer and is fully vaccinated, the claim states.
It adds that Wall cannot “tolerate wearing a mask” due to a generalized anxiety disorder.
“I have never covered my face. I tried a mask a couple times for brief periods last year, but had to remove it after five or so minutes because it caused me to instigate a feeling of a panic attack, including hyperventilating and other breathing trouble,” Wall said.
In the claim, Wall says that he submitted an application to be exempt from the federal mask requirement when he purchased his tickets with Southwest, saying it was illegal to require advance notice of disability accommodation. And he added that Southwest’s face mask exemption policy was illegally discriminating against passengers with disabilities, saying that he didn’t “pose a threat to anyone.”
He added that he also strongly opposes any mask mandate on other grounds, “including that it’s a violation of my civil liberties to be ordered to block my nose and mouth, my only two sources of oxygen.”
Wall, who is representing himself, also wants to eliminate mask requirements outlined by the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, saying the mandates are “in direct violation of a Florida executive order prohibiting any subdivision of the state from requiring face coverings.”
Wall is suing for violation of the Administrative Procedure Act and 10th Amendment. He seeks damages, enjoinment orders, injunctive relief, and legal fees supposing he hires counsel.
What do you think about masks being required on flights in the U.S.? Let us know in the comments section!
The Mask Mandate Lawsuit is Wall v. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, et al., Case No. 6:21-cv-00975-PGB-DCI in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District Of Florida Orlando Division.
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91 thoughts onWashington Man Sues Orlando Airport, TSA, CDC, for Enforcing Mask Mandate
Sandy
This has nothing to do with politics. Why is it people like you always turn in that direction? This has to do with the simple scientific fact that cloth masks cannot prevent the spread of any virus. I know I work in Virology. Second if you want your Constitutional Rights trampled on go for it. The rest of us will fight for ours and you’re with or without your help. So, he a sheep.
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I hope you lose
Stay home Karen. Please… DO NOT procreate.
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Add me, please
You people complaining about masks are just plain ridiculous. They were required for EVERYONE’S SAFETY!!! Private companies have the right to require them still and I applaud them for doing so. Ironically the “Non-Maskers” are also mostly the “Non-Vaxxers”. This whole Covid thing NEVER should of been politicized but we all know that the t-RUMP did exactly that. Kind of ironic too that the new Delta variant (the one from India) that is up to 50% more transmissible and is all over the USA is spreading rapidly in the states with low vaccine rates (all Red states).. A lot of the people still wearing masks are doing so because we know that a lot of people not wearing them are still spreading the disease!!!
Yes Gerry-US people who won’t mask are sMART. Keep your mask on for the next 50 years for all I care-just don’t dare try and make me! BTW, businesses do NOT have the RIGHT to force this nonsense on its patrons-look up the ADA act and the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Stay home.
Wearing masks has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH CIVIL RIGHTS.
IT IS MY RIGHT TO BE PROTECTED FROM YOUR IMMATURITY.
Nany nany boo boo you can’t make me!
Really?
You are too intelligent to be interacting with gullible sheep.
Masks do not work. They do harbor disgusting bacteria however. Toilet plumes eject E Coli onto them and it sits in front of your mouth getting it on with other bacteria ? so disgusting. Masks were sent to a lab and cow herpes was found too. Disgusting ?
Finally,
A VOICE OF REASON!
thank you Jesus
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During the beginning of covid 3-2020, I purchased a shotgun and 3 days later a handgun. The DOJ delayed the first shotgun purchase but approved the handgun. I was able to pick up the handgun but had to wait 30 days to come back undetermined for the first DROS. The ffl would not release even though I just picked up the handgun on approved from them. After writing letter and pleading with them, thier attorneys gave ok to release after approx 45 days. Now a little over a year later and I am on delay again for a handgun purchase. The last notice I received had a brief message about my name connected with a stolen firearm. I find that interesting because someone elses comment said the same. I have done several background NICS checks on myself trying to locate what they are finding and all come back completely blank for any criminal records. It is extremely frustrating for a law abiding citizen without any restrictions for owning a firearm to put up with these type of errors of judgement.
WTF does this have to do with the lawsuit? You sound fearful and angry. Life is too long to live like that, bro. Get some help. God bless.
it’s his 2nd amendment right slow eddie.
Which has nothing at all to do with this “lawsuit.”
Yes he has second amendment rights, and I have no problem with his owning firearms as long as he is mently fit.
The issue is, he won’t find much help in his fire arms dilemma posting under an article discussing the requirement of face masks.
Do you need guns to protect yourself?
Do you wear masks and get masks to protect yourself?
Good luck with shooting COVID
Sounds like libel to me.
Please add me for the abuse of flying 19 times during Covid so far. At the height of Covid first flights, The masks were optional after boarding and sitting down. This was for two different flight on Southwest. Then they jammed it to gather filling up the planes later months and overdid it with the mask mandate. TSA was absolutely ridiculous with this, so please add me!
Whiney entitled woe is me.
See how you like not breathing when you get the Covid.
Your lucky you are allowed to fly at all.
You can’t please some folks.
Bravo!
This man knows the State and Federal Constitutions! The Federal Government cannot dictate or override The State’s rules, unless the Fed Constitution has granted the Fed Gov’t the powers to do so.
I’d love to be a representative!
I find it hypocritical that the very airlines requiring face masks are now at loggerheads with the CDC over vaccinated passengers due to potential blood clotting. So which is it? To vax? Or not to vax? The answer doesn’t even matter because it’s no one’s business but the individuals’.
Gee doo you live in a bubble?
What you do affects me, and vice versa.
Don’t have the COVID?
Your welcome.
Pass it on.
COVID don’t care about your RIGHTS, haha
How many parents have been removed from flights?! I have a handicapped husband who constantly removes his mask and I fear we will be kicked off flights! This is insanity… I am a grown woman who isn’t asking for a caregiver and can decide for myself if to wear a mask or not!!! It is not up to the government!!!
I agree. Ignore speed limits and stop wearing seatbelts and drive drunk. Screw the government and their asinine rules.
That’s right, Rodger-add riding a motorcycle without a helmet – its your right to be stupid, its not your right to make me pay for it (medicaid coverage for your accidental death, dismemberment etc.)
Add me. The flight attendant on my last flight was screaming at me because I put my mask ? down to drink water.
Masks do not work. They do harbor disgusting bacteria however. Toilet plumes eject E Coli onto them and it sits in front of your mouth getting it on with other bacteria ? so disgusting. Masks were sent to a lab and cow herpes was found too. Disgusting ?
Put your mask in your pocket when you take a dump.
Wash your hands.
Put mask back on you face.
Masks do work.
It is the government’s role to protect citizens during an epidemic, or A PANDEMIC!
No, it’s not. It’s each individual’s responsibility. Your health is your responsibility. If what you are saying were true, where is their action and individual requirements on fast food obesity and diabetes? Or on fake food, like gmo’s, wheat, corn, sodium benzoate (a known and documented carcinogen) that causes diseases? Or the implementation of required daily exercise to prevent disease and death? There isn’t, because your health is not their responsibility not even during a fake pandemic. They only have the right to initiate under an EMERGENCY. 19 months into a virus that causes less death than the annual flu is not defined as an emergency pandemic.