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posted by janrinok on Wednesday October 28 2015, @09:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-about-time dept.

Common Dreams reports

A federal court on [October 26] ruled that a Michigan man can challenge his inclusion on the government's "No Fly List", in a move that is being celebrated as a victory for the hundreds of U.S. citizens assigned to that secretive list, as well as the countless Arab-Americans routinely subjected to similar racial profiling.

Reversing a previous district court ruling, [6th] Circuit Judge Julia Smith Gibbons ordered (pdf) "further proceedings" in the case of Saeb Mokdad, a Lebanese-American who since September 2012 has been prohibited three times from boarding a plane to visit his family in Lebanon.

[...] There are currently as many as 47,000 people currently on the U.S. government's "No Fly List" according to documents[1] leaked to The Intercept last year, including 800 Americans.

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  • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Wednesday October 28 2015, @11:21AM

    by mhajicek (51) on Wednesday October 28 2015, @11:21AM (#255508)
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 28 2015, @01:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 28 2015, @01:48PM (#255578)

    Doesn't say airplane... You can still move with your feet or even swim (if it's across the pond)

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 28 2015, @07:58PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 28 2015, @07:58PM (#255743)

      The constitution also doesn't say the government can force you to surrender your constitutional rights before you're allowed to engage in some perfectly innocent activity (like getting on a plane) simply because some people do bad things. It also doesn't say the government can arbitrarily punish you without due process, and in fact says just the opposite. Both the TSA and no-fly lists are completely unconstitutional.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 28 2015, @09:45PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 28 2015, @09:45PM (#255773)

        The Constitution doesn't specifically mention bicycles either.
        By GP's "logic", any authoritarian can arbitrarily forbid those as well.

        Your short list omits the FISA Courts^W Star Chambers [wikipedia.org] which are at the heart of these unconstitutional abuses.
        A lot of folks don't know that those have been around since 1979 [wikipedia.org]
        ...and that it was Teddy Kennedy that introduced the bill that invented them.

        -- gewg_