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10 May 2011, 10:44 am by Nathan Koppel
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed an appellate brief today with the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, asking that the court invalidate Oklahoma’s constitutional amendment last year, which barred courts in the state from using or citing Shariah law. [read post]
10 May 2011, 9:59 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) [advocacy websites] on Monday asked the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit [official website] to uphold [brief, PDF] a lower court ruling that blocked an Oklahoma constitutional amendment banning courts from considering international or Islamic law. [read post]
10 May 2011, 8:07 am by Muneer Awad
He currently serves as the Executive Director of the Oklahoma Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 1:38 pm by Zoe Tillman
The Council on American-Islamic Relations Action Network, which is based in Washington, is suing author and self-described counterterrorism researcher Paul Gaubatz and his son, Chris Gaubatz, over the alleged theft of more than 12,000 internal documents. [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 1:27 pm by Eugene Volokh
Behavior that gets rewarded gets repeated.The Cleveland chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations had also asked that the speech be canceled, and the NAACP asked “for a ‘rigorous review’ of the school’s facilities use guidelines and policies before an event scheduled for Mansfield Senior High School community room at 7 p.m. today. [read post]
12 Mar 2011, 6:38 am by firstamendmentblogger
As reported in the Washington Post and the New York Times, the Muslim civil rights advocacy group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), faced a number of accusations at the King hearing Thursday. [read post]
10 Mar 2011, 1:16 pm by Judicial Watch Blog
Not surprising considering Baca, elected to run the nation’s largest sheriff’s department, regularly attends fundraisers for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to meet the goals of his agency’s Muslim Community Affairs Division. [read post]
8 Mar 2011, 9:00 pm by resistance
“As to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, my experience is that it isn’t interested in bringing together Americans. [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 9:41 am
[JURIST] Muslim student Yasir Afifi and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) [advocacy website] filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF; press release] against the FBI [official website] on Wednesday after Afifi discovered a global positioning system (GPS) device on the undercarriage of his car. [read post]
24 Feb 2011, 12:26 pm by firstamendmentblogger
Yesterday Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the ACLU of Southern California announced the filing of a class action suit against the FBI and seven of its employees, including Director Robert Mueller. [read post]
15 Jan 2011, 3:51 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) FoxNews reports:The Council on American-Islamic Relations said it will remove a poster from the group’s website promoting an upcoming conference that encourages people not to talk to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.The poster, which appeared on the website of CAIR’s California chapter, features a sinister-looking FBI agent with the headlines “Build a Wall of Resistance” and “Don’t Talk to the FBI. [read post]
9 Dec 2010, 10:52 am by gstasiewicz
All records of communication between the Office of Mayor Bloomberg and any of the following entities: Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR); Islamic Society of North America (ISNA); International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT); American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA); American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC); Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 5:54 am
Judge Vicki Miles-LeGrange ruled in favor of the plaintiff, Muneer Awad, executive director of Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) [advocacy website] in Oklahoma, who brought the suit claiming that State Question 755 (SQ 755)... [read post]
16 Nov 2010, 12:52 pm by Judicial Watch Blog
Calling the searches “invasive” and “humiliating,” the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) advises Muslim women wearing religious head covers known as hijabs to reject full-body checks before boarding planes. [read post]
10 Nov 2010, 7:30 am by Transplanted Lawyer
Hopefully, this briefing will include declarations from the legislators who authored and sponsored the ballot initiative, but we'll see what it finally looks like.I have also seen a lot of grousing that the challenge to Measure 755 was brought by a distasteful and weird group called the Council on Islamic-American Relations. [read post]
9 Nov 2010, 12:30 pm by Judicial Watch Blog
” In its complaint the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the U.S. front for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, also claims that the law violates the First Amendment right to freedom of religion because it singles out Islam and is designed to stigmatize Muslims. [read post]
9 Nov 2010, 4:59 am
The suit was brought [JURIST report] by the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) [advocacy websites] and... [read post]
7 Nov 2010, 10:01 am by Michael Helfand
  CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) announced the filing of a lawsuit seeking a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction against implementation of the sharia law ban passed in Oklahoma (see previous post for more info). [read post]
5 Nov 2010, 7:43 pm by constitutional lawblogger
Muneer Awad, Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, filed for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction seeking to stop the State of Oklahoma from certifying state ballot question 755 and implementing the new anti-Sharia constitutional amendment. [read post]
5 Nov 2010, 9:05 am by Judicial Watch Blog
The “anti-Islam” law forbidding judges from contemplating Islamic principles is unconstitutional, according to a federal lawsuit filed this week by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a national organization that serves as the U.S. front for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. [read post]