Legal Opinion
United States v. Fawaz Yunis
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided November 17, 1988No. 88-3036PublishedCited by 103 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge MIKVA.
Special concurrence filed by Circuit Judge MIKVA.
MIKVA, Circuit Judge:
In this case, we examine whether the government protected familiar constitutional rights in highly unfamiliar circumstances. Appellee Fawaz Yunis is a citizen of Lebanon. In September 1987, agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Yunis in international waters off the coast of Cyprus for having allegedly led the 1985 hijacking of a Royal Jordanian Airlines jet in Beirut. American citizens were among the passengers on board that airplane, and thus the…
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