Legal Opinion

Arar v. Ashcroft

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided August 1, 2008No. Docket 06-4216-cvPublishedCited by 103 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Judge SACK concurs in part and dissents in part in a separate opinion.

JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:

On September 26, 2002, plaintiff-appellant Maher Arar, a dual citizen of Syria and Canada, and the subject of a U.S. government “lookout,” J.A. 88, was detained by U.S. authorities at John F. Kennedy International airport in New York City (“JFK Airport”) while en route from Tunisia to Montreal. On October 7, 2002, J. Scott Blackman, then the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”) Regional Director for the Eastern Region, determined, based on a review of classified and…

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3Cited by103 opinions

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