Former state Sen. Lora Reinbold was banned from flying on Alaska Airlines in 2021 after she refused to comply with mask policies. Now she's suing the airline and asking for a total of at least $97.5 million in damages.
Sen. Lora Reinbold, R-Eagle River, co-hosts an Alaska Legislature listening session at the Anchorage Baptist Temple on Nov. 22, 2021, “related to government action to COVID.” for refusing to comply with coronavirus masking policies is now suing the airline and more than a dozen of its employees.
Reinbold is representing herself in the lawsuit and asking for at least $6.5 million in damages from each of the 15 defendants, for a total of at least $97.5 million. Reinbold says in the lawsuit that the airline failed to publish clear policies around exemptions to mask-wearing for people like herself, which she says had been ordered by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the federal Department of Transportation’s Office of Aviation Consumer Protection.
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