Court Rules That Woman Wrongfully Placed On No Fly List Should Be Taken Off The List... We Think
The ruling issued today, and we'd love to tell you what's in it... except for the fact that it's sealed.
Via Techdirt:
We've written a few times about the troubling case of Rahinah Ibrahim, a PhD. student at Stanford who was wrongfully placed on the "no fly" list because (it appears) some clueless law enforcement officials mixed up the names of a networking group of professional Muslims in Malaysia who had returned from work or study in the US and Europe (which she was a part of) and a very, very different terrorist organization. While she had received something of an apology for initially not being allowed to fly to Malaysia (and then allowed to fly), it appeared that her name was then placed on the no fly l...