“It’s slander, and it’s false imprisonment for a five-year-old,” he said. “United has to be held accountable for its actions.” Rob Smith Yahoo Finance • June 9, 2017 A gay North Carolina dad is pursuing legal action against United Airlines, claiming he was detained after a mid-May flight by attendants and crew who wrongfully accused him of sexually abusing his son. Henry Amador-Batten, 53, says he and his five-year-old son were returning from Puerto Rico, where they visited his [...]

"This kind of conduct is not going to be tolerated by the flying public and it certainly is not going to be tolerated by my client"  - Ken Padowitz,  Attorney for Henry Amador-Batten

The family's attorney, Ken Padowitz, told the Daily News there "would absolutely be ramifications" and is seeking compensation for his client from the airline. "The flying public is sick and tired of the conduct occurring to patrons that have bought a ticket to fly. If they don't resolve the case with us soon we will file suit," he said. "We can't go back in time and have United not have allowed this horrible thing to happen to this 5-year-old [...]

“I always had the same strategy throughout the trial,” defense lawyer Ken Padowitz told the Sun Sentinel on Friday. “The jury heard me say to them in opening that my client believed this was the way Ms. Marquinez died. What I didn’t tell them until closing is that he was most likely wrong.” By Jackie Salo May 26, 2017 Size didn’t matter in the end. Lawyers for the Florida man acquitted in his girlfriend’s murder [...]

“I don’t think the intent of that legislation is one that encourages bogus reports to law enforcement with zero evidence,” Padowitz said. “I think words are cheap and actions matter. If you are going to put someone in that humiliating position in front of their 5-year-old son, you need to rectify it.” BY ZACHERY EANES May 25th, 2017 DURHAM Henry Amador-Batten, a gay Durham father who was accused of inappropriately touching his son by a [...]

“I always had the same strategy throughout the trial,” Padowitz said. “The jury heard me say to them in opening that my client believed this was the way Ms. Marquinez died. What I didn’t tell them until closing is that he was most likely wrong.” By Rafael Olmeda Sun Sentinel May 28th, 2017 The unusual defense argument that Richard Patterson's genetalia may have caused his girlfriend to choke to death dominated the attorney’s opening statement [...]

"He felt absolutely mortified. He was humiliated in front of his son," Padowitz said. "This is just outrageous conduct. It's not okay, and the flying public is sick and tired of being treated like this by airlines." Padowitz added that gay parents more often have to deal with these types of accusations. "Gay men and women are consistently at the end of this type of inappropriate conclusion jumping and behavior by other people, and it can't be tolerated by [...]

“It’s just outrageous and this outrageous conduct is not going to be tolerated by passengers on this plane and it’s certainly not going to be tolerated by my client,” said Ken Padowitz, the family’s attorney out of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. By Derrick Lewis   May 24, 2017, 4:58 pm MORRISVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) — A flight back home Friday night from visiting family in Puerto Rico will be one that Henry Amador-Batten and his son, Ben, won’t soon forget. [...]

The family's attorney, Ken Padowitz, insists United Airlines must provide more than words for compensation. "United has 100% of the responsibility for this outrageous conduct," Padowitz told ABC11. "To be treated like a criminal, to go from zero to 100 and be calling law enforcement with armed police officers with guns to stop my client in front of other passengers, in front of other people at the terminal - and to put his son through this is outrageous conduct. [...]