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"gewg_" writes:

from the it's-about-time dept.

Common Dreams reports [commondreams.org]

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 [uscourts.gov] (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 [theintercept.com][1] leaked to The Intercept last year [commondreams.org], including 800 Americans.

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