UVA Lawyer - Spring 2010

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Keeping Uncle Sam from Spying on Citizens AP Photo / M. Spencer Green

By Elinor Mills

During the first Gulf War, Greg Nojeim ’85 went to Washington National Airport to observe Arab Americans being pulled out of lines and put through security checks that weren’t required of other passengers. The evidence he gathered was used by his employer, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, to sue Pan Am World Airways on allegations of racial profiling.

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