Supreme Court says Muslims placed on no-fly list can sue FBI agents for damages
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/10/supreme-court-says-muslims-placed-on-no-fly-list-can-sue-fbi-agents.html
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday in favor of three Muslim men who say they were placed or kept on the government’s no-fly list in retaliation for refusing to serve as terrorism informants for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The court wrote in a unanimous opinion authored by Justice Clarence Thomas that Muhammad Tanvir, Jameel Algibhah and Naveed Shinwari may sue individual FBI agents for money damages under a federal law protecting religious exercise...
...“Rather than accepting that refusal, the FBI agents persisted — in some instances threatening individual Respondents with deportation and arrest and in other instances offering financial incentives and assistance with family members’ immigration to the United States,” Kassem wrote.
“In each case, the agents relied upon what they assumed would be the irresistible coercion of the No Fly List,” he added.
The case is: Tanzin,
et al. v. Tanvir,
et al No. 19–71
*pdf at link:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-71_qol1.pdf