Ibrahim v. Department of Homeland Security
United States District Court for the Northern District of California
62 F. Supp. 3d 909 (2014)
Rahinah Ibrahim (plaintiff), a Malaysian citizen and Stanford student, was wrongly placed on federal watch lists and the no-fly list due to a federal agent's clerical error, leading to her being detained, handcuffed, and questioned when trying to board a flight, and later having her student visa revoked while abroad, permanently barring her return to the United States; she sued the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies (defendants), who conceded she never posed any terrorism or national-security threat.
Whether a non-resident who suffers adverse action from being wrongly placed in national-security databases is entitled under due process to a post-deprivation remedy requiring the government to cleanse the lists of her name and certify the correction.