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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: 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_