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Civil Rights

Aug. 16, 2012

FBI asks for Muslim civil rights lawsuit dismissal

Attorneys represent the FBI and several of its individual agents asked a Santa Ana-based federal judge to dismiss a civil rights complaint alleging it targeted Muslims for surveillance.


By Ben Adlin


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SANTA ANA - Considering whether to dismiss a case accusing the FBI of infiltrating and illegally spying on an Orange County community of Muslims, U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney found himself stuck between competing policy concerns.


Government lawyers argued that allowing the suit to go forward could reveal sensitive national security secrets. But if Carney dismissed the case, lawyers for the plaint...

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