(Oregonian) A federal appeals court panel has upheld the government’s placement of four people on the no-fly list, finding the basis for the decision “reasonably clear” and not vague as challenged.
One or more of the four plaintiffs allegedly financed terrorists, trained with militant groups overseas or advocated for terrorist violence, the three-member panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found Monday. The judges, though, noted no one has been charged with any crimes and the government’s information amounts to allegations.
“Upon review of the government’s public and classified filings, we are satisfied that the No Fly List criteria are governed by constitutionally sufficient standards, at least as applied to these plaintiffs,” Circuit Judge Raymond C. Fisher wrote in the 60-page opinion.
