Ryanair seeks to exclude evidence of ex-FBI executive in US case against Booking.com
Airline has sued the firm and subsidiaries over alleged screen-scraping
Ryanair has previously accused Booking.com of being partly responsible for a 'malicious attack' on the airline’s payment processing platform. Photo: PA
Expert testimony provided on behalf of travel giant Booking.com by a former FBI employee and ex-member of the White House National Security Council should be excluded from a case involving Ryanair because the airline claims her credentials may sway a jury to “incorrectly accept her unreliable opinions”.
Ryanair sued Booking Holdings and subsidiaries Kayak, Agoda and Priceline in 2020 for alleged screen-scraping of its site and has claimed damages. Booking Holdings and its subsidiaries have countersued Ryanair.
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