The Supreme Court could ban suits against federal officials for violating religious freedom after agreeing to take up a challenge involving Muslim men who claim they were wrongfully placed on the U.S. no-fly list for refusing to act as government informants.
The justices accepted a government petition asking whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act allows suits seeking damages against individual federal employees, in this case members of the FBI. A lower court said it does.
Muhammad Tanvir and other Muslim men sued over claims they were placed on the no-fly list in retaliation for refusing to serve as informants, a ...
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