Supreme Court to Review ‘No-Fly List’ Lawsuit Against FBI

U.S. citizen Yonas Fikre claims he was tortured overseas because of the list. That the government later took him off the list is irrelevant, he argues.

A TSA officer checks travel documents at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Va., Nov. 25, 2015. Win McNamee/Getty Images

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide if a Muslim man from Oregon can continue suing the FBI after the agency removed his name from the “no-fly list” but wouldn’t promise to keep it off.

The no-fly list, which is maintained by the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center, is “a small subset” of the U.S. government’s Terrorist Screening Database—commonly known as the terrorist watchlist—that contains “the identity information of known or suspected terrorists,” according to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).