[who_would_fardels_bear]

1. Government ruins a person's life
2. Person sues
3. Government is afraid they might lose the case
4. Government removes impediment that ruined person's life
5. Case goes to court
6. Government argues that the case is moot because the impediment has been removed and the plaintiff no longer has a case or even standing
7. Government hopes to get away with it

It's good that the Supremes saw past this charade this time, but how many times in the past has it worked?

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

8. Government seals all NFL process documentation as National Security items. Case dismissed.

[Enterprise]

The basics of the case as I understand it flow like this. He flew out of the country. After he was out of the country the FBI put him on the no fly list. That means he was considered a threat to the airlines or was suspected of somehow being involved in terrorism. But then, the FBI offered him a deal. If he would become an informant, they would remove him from the no fly list. Here is what I think is important about this: When the FBI offered him the deal, it NEGATED entirely their reason for putting him on the no fly list! If he was a threat when they put him on the no fly list, then being an informant doesn't mean he was not a threat! This was a colossal fustercluck by the FBI and the courts have seen the idiocy of what they did.

I left out the part of the ordeal he went through because of what the FBI did because others have posted about it.