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no-fly list

Appeals Civil Rights Government 

Agents May Owe Damages for No-Fly-List Decisions, Supreme Court Says

December 10, 2020December 10, 2020 NICK RUMMELL
damages, Muslims, no-fly list, U.S. Supreme Court

Muslims who were placed on the No Fly List can seek money damages from the FBI agents they accuse of bullying them to inform on fellow Muslims, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

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Appeals Civil Rights Government 

Claims of Extortionate No-Fly List Head to High Court

November 22, 2019November 22, 2019 TIM RYAN
FBI, informants, Muslims, no-fly list, U.S. Supreme Court

The Supreme Court took up a case Friday involving Muslim men who say the FBI put them on a no-fly list because they would not serve as government informants.  

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Appeals Civil Rights Government 

No-Fly List

October 21, 2019 BRIEF
Ninth Circuit, no-fly list, Terrorism

The federal government’s criteria for inclusion on the no-fly list are not impermissibly vague – at least as applied to four people who challenged their placement on the list in a 2010 lawsuit, a Ninth Circuit panel affirmed Monday.

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Civil Rights Government 

Federal Judge Finds FBI’s Terror Watchlist Unconstitutional

September 5, 2019September 5, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Constitution, FBI, Muslims, no-fly list, Terrorism

The government’s watchlist of more than 1 million people identified as “known or suspected terrorists” violates the constitutional rights of those placed on it, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

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Civil Rights Government 

FBI Blacklist

September 3, 2019September 3, 2019 BRIEF
no-fly list, Terrorism, veterans

An Afghanistan war veteran and former law enforcement officer sued Attorney General William Barr, et al., for placing him in a terrorist screening database, claiming he is “some kind of threat to this country,” restricting his travel and work opportunities and not allowing him to confront his accusers, in federal court.

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Civil Rights Government 

Political Asylum

August 28, 2019August 28, 2019 BRIEF
Asylum, China, FBI, no-fly list, Terrorism, Travel

A Uighur, Chinese-born political asylee in the United States, claims in a federal complaint that the FBI inaccurately placed him on the no-fly list while he was legally visiting Sweden, preventing him from returning to his legal home in Virginia.

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Appeals Civil Rights Government 

Feds Stumble in Bid to Avoid Liability for No-Fly Schemes

February 14, 2019February 14, 2019 ADAM KLASFELD
FBI, immunity, Muslims, no-fly list, NYC, Second Circuit

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.

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Appeals Government Law 

Ninth Circuit Reverses Too-Small Award for Attorneys on ‘No-Fly’ Case

January 2, 2019January 3, 2019 HELEN CHRISTOPHI
Attorneys, bad faith, en banc, Ninth Circuit, no-fly list, Terrorism

A 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.”

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Appeals Civil Rights Government 

Court Restores Damages Claim by Muslims on No-Fly List

May 2, 2018 NICK RUMMELL
FBI, immunity, Muslims, no-fly list, religious freedom, Second Circuit

The Second Circuit revived a suit Wednesday involving three Muslims whose refusal to become FBI informants landed them on the no-fly list.

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Appeals Government 

En Banc 9th Circuit Takes Up Fee War in No-Fly Fumble

March 20, 2018March 21, 2018 HELEN CHRISTOPHI
en banc, Ninth Circuit, no-fly list, TSA

An 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.

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Appeals Civil Rights Government National 

En Banc Ninth Circuit to Revisit No-Fly Case Fee Flap

December 29, 2017 WILLIAM DOTINGA
en banc, Ninth Circuit, no-fly list, Terrorism

The 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.

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Civil Rights Government National Politics 

Jacksonville Man Sues Over Inclusion on No Fly List

July 21, 2017July 25, 2017 EVA FEDDERLY
no-fly list

A 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.

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Civil Rights 

No-Fly List Abuse Could Cost FBI Agents

March 2, 2017April 28, 2017 ADAM KLASFELD
FBI, immunity, informants, Muslims, no-fly list, religious freedom

Government 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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