December 10, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court said Thursday that a group of Muslim plaintiffs can seek money damages from FBI agents who allegedly placed them on the no-fly list after they refused to become informants, saying that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act allows payouts for religious burdens.
October 06, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed open to the idea of allowing plaintiffs to seek money damages from government officials who put burdens on their free exercise of religion, as the justices heard a case against FBI agents who allegedly put Muslim men on the no-fly list after they refused to become informants.
November 22, 2019
The Supreme Court on Friday took up a case examining whether a group of Muslim men can rely on a law protecting religious freedom to seek damages from individual FBI agents who allegedly put them on the no-fly list in retaliation for refusing to become informants in a terrorism investigation.