=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This article was sent to you by someone who found it on SF Gate. The original article can be found on SFGate.com here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=3D/chronicle/archive/2002/11= /28/BA116046.DTL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, November 28, 2002 (SF Chronicle) SAN FRANCISCO/Airline was justified in barring passenger <A HREF=3D"mailto:chronfeedback@sfchronicle.com";></A> A jury has found that United Airlines did not violate discrimination laws when it refused to let a Pakistani man board a flight at San Francisco International Airport shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks. In the first case of its kind to go to trial, a San Francisco Superior Court jury found that United had discriminated against M. Ahsan Baig of Fremont but that the airline was justified in its actions. Baig, a U.S. resident of Asian descent, said he was about to take a flig= ht on Sept. 22 to see his family in Philadelphia when the airline refused to let him board the plane. He said he had been told that a passenger had passed a note to an airline employee saying Baig had exchanged glances with another person who appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent. Baig, who works at a technology company in San Francisco, denied the charge and accused the airline of singling him out because of his race.=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2002 SF Chronicle