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Eugene

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Tue Mar 25, 2014, 12:52 PM Mar 2014

U.S. will not appeal judge's ruling on no-fly list mistake

Source: Reuters

U.S. will not appeal judge's ruling on no-fly list mistake

SAN FRANCISCO Tue Mar 25, 2014 12:39pm EDT

(Reuters) - The U.S. government will not appeal a court ruling this year that found inadequate due-process protections for a Malaysian architect who wound up on a federal no-fly list by mistake.

Rahinah Ibrahim sued the U.S. government in 2006 after she was placed on the no-fly list and was then denied a U.S. visa. Judge William Alsup ruled in her favor, saying that existing procedures to correct mistakes on the no-fly list do not provide adequate due process protections.

On Tuesday, a lawyer for the Department of Justice said in court that the government will not appeal that ruling.

(Reporting by Dan Levine, Editing by Franklin Paul)


http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/25/us-usa-noflylist-idUSBREA2O1BM20140325
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