On March 19, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the FBI must face a lawsuit filed by a Muslim man, Yonas Fikre, who was previously placed on the bureau's no-fly list and has since been removed. The decision emphasized the court's jurisdiction in cases with substantial factual issues, spotlighting the FBI's operations surrounding the no-fly list. Civil rights groups have heralded this case as a significant test of the FBI's secrecy and hope it will reveal the government's opaque rules for prohibiting individuals from boarding commercial aircraft. The justices stated that the case is too undeveloped to determine the truth of the allegations but clarified that the FBI cannot dismiss the legal challenge simply by removing Fikre's name from the list.
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously voted in favor of a Muslim American man’s claim that he had unfairly been put on a U.S. government no-fly list in retaliation for refusing to become an informant. While on a business trip to Sudan in 2009, Yonas Fikre was invited to the U.S.… https://t.co/yfPTD4XYk7
The justices said they took no position on those allegations and said the case is too undeveloped to know what’s true. But they said the FBI can’t shut down the legal challenge merely by deleting Mr. Fikre’s name. https://t.co/csRWWErt2R
Civil rights groups had seen the case as a major test of the FBI’s secrecy surrounding the operations of the No Fly List and hope that as the case proceeds it will expose some of the sketchy rules the government uses to keep people from boarding commercial aircraft.…
The FBI must face a lawsuit filed by a Muslim man who has since been removed from the bureau’s “no-fly list,” the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on March 19. https://t.co/wga3SBlX8B
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