Muslims placed on the “no-fly list” after refusing to act as informants for the FBI may sue individual federal officials personally for damages under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled Dec. 10.
The list, maintained by the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center, is “a small subset of the U.S. government Terrorist Screening Database (also known as the terrorist watchlist) that contains the identity information of known or suspected terrorists,” according to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). “Individuals on the No Fly List are prevented from boarding an aircraft when flying within, to, from, and over the United States.”
