Claims of Extortionate No-Fly List Head to High 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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Federal Judge Finds FBI’s Terror Watchlist Unconstitutional
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 moreFBI Blacklist
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.
Read morePolitical Asylum
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.
Read moreFeds Stumble in Bid to Avoid Liability for No-Fly Schemes
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 moreNinth Circuit Reverses Too-Small Award for Attorneys on ‘No-Fly’ Case
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.”
Read moreCourt Restores Damages Claim by Muslims on No-Fly List
The Second Circuit revived a suit Wednesday involving three Muslims whose refusal to become FBI informants landed them on the no-fly list.
Read moreEn Banc 9th Circuit Takes Up Fee War in No-Fly Fumble
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.
Read moreEn Banc Ninth Circuit to Revisit No-Fly Case Fee Flap
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.
Read moreJacksonville Man Sues Over Inclusion on 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.
Read moreNo-Fly List Abuse Could Cost FBI Agents
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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