Swordsmyth
09-20-2018, 11:27 PM
A federal appeals court on Thursday revived a Muslim-American man’s lawsuit accusing the U.S. government of improperly keeping him for about six years on its “no-fly list,” where he said he was placed to coerce him into becoming an FBI informant. Reversing a lower court ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Portland, Oregon said Yonas Fikre’s due process claims did not become moot when he was removed from the list without explanation in May 2016, three years after he sued.
The court said the government’s refusal to acknowledge that Fikre did not belong on the list and would not be returned there left an overhang that could cause business associates, friends and even family to shun him.
“Fikre remains, in his own words, ‘stigmatiz(ed) as a known or suspected terrorist and as an individual who represents a threat of engaging in or conducting a violent act of terrorism and who is operationally capable of doing so,’” U.S. Circuit Judge Morgan Christen wrote for a three-judge panel.
More at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-civilliberties/muslim-american-can-sue-over-no-fly-list-u-s-appeals-court-idUSKCN1M02RU
The court said the government’s refusal to acknowledge that Fikre did not belong on the list and would not be returned there left an overhang that could cause business associates, friends and even family to shun him.
“Fikre remains, in his own words, ‘stigmatiz(ed) as a known or suspected terrorist and as an individual who represents a threat of engaging in or conducting a violent act of terrorism and who is operationally capable of doing so,’” U.S. Circuit Judge Morgan Christen wrote for a three-judge panel.
More at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-civilliberties/muslim-american-can-sue-over-no-fly-list-u-s-appeals-court-idUSKCN1M02RU