Unable to secure a rehearing of the case at the Second Circuit, three judges called it “quite wrong and actually dangerous” Thursday that FBI agents accused of abusing a terror watch list could owe damages.
Read moreA divided en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday struck down a fee award of more than $400,000 for the pro bono lawyers who won their Malaysian client’s removal from the federal government’s no-fly list, an amount the attorneys called a “pittance.”
Read moreThe Second Circuit revived a suit Wednesday involving three Muslims whose refusal to become FBI informants landed them on the no-fly list.
Read moreAn en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit signaled on Tuesday that it will strike down a $419,987 fee award for the pro bono lawyers who won their Malaysian client’s removal from the no-fly list, an amount her lawyers called a “pittance” limiting a person’s ability to challenge placement on government blacklists.
Read moreThe en banc Ninth Circuit will rehear whether the U.S. government owes a Malaysian professor attorney fees and costs in her fight against being unfairly placed on the no-fly list and other terrorist databases.
Read moreA Jacksonville man claims in court that he was inexplicably added to the federal no-fly list after he left on a March trip to Bosnia and he’s been unable to return until he received a one-time waiver.
Read moreGovernment attorneys struggled Wednesday before the Second Circuit to show why FBI agents who used the constitutionally shaky no-fly list to pressure Muslims into becoming informants should not pay damages.
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