(Tulsa World) A judge has dismissed a Muslim woman’s civil rights lawsuit after finding that her complaint failed to meet the legal burden to show that Tulsa County sheriff’s deputies violated her constitutional rights when they refused to let her enter the courthouse because she wouldn’t remove her hijab in public when she set off a metal detector.
U.S. District Judge Claire Eagan, in an opinion and order released Tuesday, dismissed claims against four sheriff’s deputies sued in their personal capacities.
Eagan, in her ruling, noted that Suha Elqutt’s lawsuit “has not shown that clearly established law would have put defendants on notice that requiring a plaintiff to remove her hijab in a public place was a violation of plaintiff’s constitutional rights.”
