A father and daughter have filed a class-action lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration and the Drug Enforcement Administration, claiming that authorities seized the father’s life savings at Pittsburgh International Airport without any legal justification.
The lawsuit was filed by the Institute for Justice, a public interest law firm, on behalf of Terry Rolin, 79, a retired railroad engineer from Pittsburgh. The firm has sued in two other similar cases in Houston and Cleveland. In both cases, the U.S. government eventually gave the money back.
