ABDI v. WRAY

No. 18-4078.

942 F.3d 1019 (2019)

Yussuf Awadir ABDI, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Christopher A. WRAY, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in his official capacity; Christopher M. Piehota, Director of the Terrorism Screening Center, in his official capacity; Huban A. Gowadia, Acting Administrator, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in his official capacity; Kevin K. McAleenan, Acting Commissioner United States Customs and Border Protection; Nicholas J. Rasmussen, Director of the Terrorism Screening Center, in his official capacity, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

FILED November 12, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gadeir Abbas , CAIR Legal Defense Fund, Washington, D.C. ( Lena F. Masri , CAIR Legal Defense Fund, Washington, D.C., James W. McConkie and Bradley H. Parker, Parker & McConkie, Salt Lake City, Utah, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Joshua Waldman , ( Joseph H. Hunt , Assistant Attorney General, John W. Huber , U.S. Attorney, Sharon Swingle , with him on the brief), U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Appellees.

Before TYMKOVICH, Chief Judge, EBEL and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges.


Yusuf Awadir Abdi sued the directors of several federal agencies challenging his placement on the "Selectee List," a subset of the federal government's terrorist watchlist, which he alleges subjects him to enhanced screening at the airport and requires the government to label him as a "known or suspected terrorist" and to disseminate...

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