Judge: let passengers challenge no-fly list
Muslim Americans and their civil rights allies are celebrating a federal judge’s decision ordering the U.S. government to allow passengers on the no-fly list to challenge their inclusion.
Judge Anna J. Brown of the U.S. District Court in Portland, Oregon, ruled on June 24 that the current procedures were unconstitutional and violated the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee of due process.
The case stems from a 2010 lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of 13 Muslim plaintiffs who were not allowed to board a plane but never told why.
