9th Circuit Partly Reverses Dismissal Of Muslims’ Suit Over FBI Surveillance

Mealey's ( January 3, 2025, 3:08 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Nearly three years after the U.S. Supreme Court remanded a surveillance suit brought by a group of California Muslims against the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and 18 months after it heard oral argument in the matter, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed dismissal of constitutional claims against individual FBI agents while finding that a trial court erred in dismissing religious discrimination claims under the state secrets privilege without conducting the necessary inquiry....