<story><title>No-fly list trial: Court awards fees on government attorneys’ bad faith</title><url>https://papersplease.org/wp/2019/01/03/plaintiff-in-first-no-fly-trial-wins-another-appeal-on-attorneys-fees-and-government-lawyers-bad-faith/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mabbo</author><text>&amp;gt; Even Attorney General Eric Holder got involved in the government’s obstruction of discovery in the case, signing what appears to have been a perjured affidavit falsely claiming that he had personal knowledge that disclosing the status or reasons for Dr. Ibrahim’s blacklisting (i.e. the fact that an FBI agent had made a mistake), “could reasonably be expected to cause significant harm to the national security.”&lt;p&gt;The attorney general, knowing full well that the entire case was based on the government screwing up, perjures himself by claiming that letting anyone know why this happened would cause harm to national security. This is the danger of secrecy in law. When you can claim something must be kept secret with no burden of proof, you let government&amp;#x27;s hide embarrassments.</text></comment>
<story><title>No-fly list trial: Court awards fees on government attorneys’ bad faith</title><url>https://papersplease.org/wp/2019/01/03/plaintiff-in-first-no-fly-trial-wins-another-appeal-on-attorneys-fees-and-government-lawyers-bad-faith/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nagrom</author><text>In case anyone else is confused, the term &amp;quot;en banc&amp;quot; refers to a case which is heard before &lt;i&gt;all&lt;/i&gt; the judges on the bench for that court, rather than just one. En banc hearings are generally made in cases deemed of extreme importance. As such, this is a fairly strong finding.</text></comment>