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.
Read moreAn 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.
Read moreA 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.
Read moreUnable 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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