Tom Posch missed a weekend trip to Cleveland last summer after United Airlines overbooked his flight. Normally, travelers in Posch’s shoes would quietly accept the flight vouchers the airline offered as compensation. But Posch is an Air Force attorney, and he decided to dig into federal regulations to see what the law requires of United. What he found led him to file a lawsuit in a Virginia district court.

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