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Sharona Hoffman

Law’s Sharona Hoffman talks about airline passenger behavior

Tensions still high in the air as fights, outbursts draw attention to unruly passengers
Dallas Morning NewsSharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, said bad behavior from airline passengers existed well before the pandemic began, but the pandemic elevated the frequency of incidents. “Everybody is feeling more nervous,” Hoffman said. “There’s certainly more concern when you get on an airplane than there was before.”