Let's see if this gets upheld on appeal - which I am certain there will be filed...
(Reuters) - The U.S.
government's no-fly list banning people accused of links to terrorism
from commercial flights violates their constitutional rights because it
gives them no meaningful way to contest that decision, a federal judge
ruled on Tuesday.
U.S.
District Judge Anna Brown, ruling on a lawsuit filed in federal court in
Oregon by 13 Muslim Americans who were branded with the no-fly status,
ordered the government to come up with new procedures that allow people
on the no-fly list to challenge that designation.
"The
court concludes international travel is not a mere convenience or
luxury in this modern world. Indeed, for many international travel is a
necessary aspect of liberties sacred to members of a free society,"
Brown wrote in her 65-page ruling.
"Accordingly,
on this record the court concludes plaintiffs inclusion on the no-fly
list constitutes a significant deprivation of their liberty interests in
international travel," Brown said.
The
decision hands a major victory to the 13 plaintiffs - four of them
veterans of the U.S. military - who deny they have links to terrorism
and say they only learned of their no-fly status when they arrived at an
airport and were blocked from boarding a flight.
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