Civil Suit
On 1 August 2007 Mohamed joined a civil suit filed under the United States' Alien Tort Statute against Jeppesen Dataplan, with the assistance of the American Civil Liberties Union. The defendant in the case was a Boeing subsidiary accused of arranging extraordinary rendition flights for the CIA. This was a joint lawsuit with four other plaintiffs, Bisher Al-Rawi, Abou Elkassim Britel, Ahmed Agiza, and Mohamed Farag Ahmad Bashmilah.
Accepting the argument of the Obama administration that hearing the case would divulge state secrets, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit dismissed the lawsuit on 8 September 2010.
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