OTMLAW defeated two motions to dismiss and five summary judgment motions on behalf of the six Imams to establish a major precedent protecting minorities from profiling, warrantless search, illegal detention, and false arrest and imprisonment based on the victims’ religious belief and practices, race and national origin. The precedent asserts the six Imams’ and other minorities’ rights under the Fourth, the Fifth and Sixth Amendment Rights.
Read More about the Six Imams case: Shqeirat v. US Airways Group, Inc., 645 F.Supp.2d 765 (D.Minn. 2009) Shqeirat v. US Airways Group, Inc.>, 2008 WL 4232018 (D.Minn. Sept. 9, 2008) Shqeirat v. US Airways Group, Inc., 515 F.Supp.2d 984 (D.Minn. 2007)
11/6/06 Six Imams Ejected from US Flight
3/13/07 OTMLAW files suit on behalf of Six Imams profiled by US Airways and Airport Police — The imams, most of whom are from Arizona, were returning from a religious conference in November when they were taken off a plane in Minneapolis, handcuffed and questioned. They had prayed on their prayer rugs in the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport before the flight, and after they boarded, a passenger passed a note to a flight attendant.
4/5/07 Paula Zahn Interviews Omar Mohammedi regarding The Six Imams Case. Find the transcript here.
11/21/07 OTMLAW prevails against defendants’ motion to dismiss — U.S. District Judge Ann Montgomery said in a 41-page opinion late Tuesday that the imams, who say they were discriminated against when they were removed from a flight last year, have a plausible claim that their constitutional rights may have been violated 11/21/2007