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Americans Win Right to Challenge Inclusion on Govt's Secret No-Fly List

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

"gewg_" writes:

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, @10:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 28 2015, @10:25PM (#255783)

    It's one of their earliest pages.
    They soon realized it was a dumb idea and stopped that--but haven't gone back and undone that where it exists.

    -- gewg_