"No-fly" trial in San Francisco this week

Courtroom sketches from day 4 of the trial by kind permission of Jackson West: Judge Alsup (left, rear), plaintiff’s expert witness Prof. Sinnar (top right), Special Agent Lubman (FBI Terrorist Screening Center, center right), and Mr. Cooper (State Department, lower right). Some rights reserved, CC BY 3.0 US.

I’ll be spending this week and possibly part of next in a Federal courtroom in San Francisco, covering the trial in Ibrahim v. DHS for the Identity Project.

This is the first lawsuit challenging a U.S. government “no-fly” order to make it to trial.

Cellphone coverage and Internet access in the courthouse are unreliable, but I’ll be tweeting updates when possible in additional to posting daily reports on the trial in the Identity Project blog at PapersPlease.org.

I’ll add links to my updates as they are posted:

• 1 Dec. 2013: First “no-fly” trial to begin this week in San Francisco
• 2 Dec. 2013: Witness in “no-fly” trial finds she”s on “no-fly” list too
• 3 Dec. 2013: “No-fly” trial, day 2: Dr. Ibrahim gets her (virtual) day in court
• 4 Dec. 2013: “No-fly” trial, day 3: Why and how was Dr. Ibrahim barred from the U.S.?
• 5 Dec. 2013: “No-fly” trial, day 4: Why can”t the plaintiff (or a witness) be at this trial?
• 6 Dec. 2013 (a.m.): “No-fly” trial, day 5, part 1: Closing arguments
• 6 Dec. 2013 (p.m.): “No-fly” trial, day 5, part 2: What happened to the plaintiff’s daughter?
• 9 Dec. 2013: “No-fly” trial: What happens now?
  
  
• 16 Dec. 2013: N.Y. Times editorial cites my reports from the “no-fly” trial
• 17 Dec. 2013: Legal briefs on issues remaining after “no-fly” trial
• 19 Dec. 2013: “No-fly” trial: There are secrets, and then there are secrets.
  
• 23 Dec. 2013: Briefing completed following “no-fly” trial
• 30 Dec. 2013: Judge in “no-fly” case denies plaintiff & her lawyers access to evidence
  
  
• 14 Jan. 2014: Trial judge finds for plaintiff Dr. Ibrahim in no-fly case
• 15 Jan. 2014: Press Release by Professor Dr. Hajah Rahinah Ibrahim
• 16 Jan. 2014: Judge orders parties to “no-fly” lawsuit to make their arguments public
• 22 Jan. 2014: Judge orders more disclosure about what happened to daughter of plaintiff in “no-fly” trial
• 22 Jan. 2014: Second judge finds “no-fly” orders may violate due process and right to travel
• 24 Jan. 2014: Defendants in “no-fly” case ignore judge”s deadline to make their arguments public
• 27 Jan. 2014: Government finally admits plaintiff was on the “no-fly” list
• 28 Jan. 2014: Does a US citizen need the government”s permission to return to the US?
• 31 Jan. 2014: The price of justice: 9 years, $3.9 million, and counting
• 6 Feb. 2014: More details of Judge Alsup”s decision in “no-fly” case
• 14 Feb. 2014: Lessons from the first “no-fly” trial
  
  
• 1 April 2014: Government decides not to appeal decision in Ibrahim v. DHS; more no-fly and watchlist cases on track toward trial
• 16 April 2014: FBI tells Dr. Ibrahim she”s not on the “no-fly” list
• 16 April 2014: Decision in first “no-fly” trial finally unsealed
• 19 April 2014: Lawyers for Dr. Ibrahim say government acted in bad faith in “no-fly” case
• 7 May 2014: How do FBI agents decide who to put on the “no-fly” list?
• 3 Jan. 2019: Plaintiff in first no-fly trial wins another appeal on attorneys’ fees and government lawyers’ bad faith
• 17 Dec. 2020: Lawyers who challenged “no-fly” order finally get paid
  
  
• Follow @ehasbrouck on Twitter
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• Search PapersPlease.org for all articles mentioning “Ibrahim”
  
  
• Public mirror of Ibrahim v. DHS court docket (via RECAP)
• Official court docket via PACER (US$0.10 per page)
• PACER users: Please use RECAP!
  
  
• Other news articles citing my reports from the No-Fly trial

If you need to reach me during the trial this week, phone or text me — I don’t expect to have access to e-mail during the day — and I’ll get back to you after court recesses for the day.