If anything, it ups the ante. This is a King county jury we will be dealing with here, assuming Alaska doesn't manage to settle out of court. A second similar case, even from a different airline, just further convinces the uber-liberal jury that this is the kind of thing airline captains just do to female subordinates on layovers (a less than diplomatic descriptive term in this case).

This is the locale that elected an avowed socialist to their city council, wants to have tax-funded heroin shooting galleries, and at the end of the USSR, bought a larger than life sized statue of Lenin when Leningrad became Petrograd again to put up in a park in Fremont.

If AAG isn't scared of this case, they aren't very bright.

And seriously, of the two pilots involved, who has Alaska put back on the schedule?