TSA continues to escape judicial review of “screening” practices
The lawsuit by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) which has forced the TSA to allow public “comment” on TSA use of “virtual strip-search machines” (on the basis of a “petition for rulemaking” originally submitted years ago by groups including the Identity Project) is only one of the cases by individuals and organizations seeking to have the TSA’s “screening” practices reviewed by the courts.
Unfortunately, the TSA has still succeeded in avoiding any meaningful judicial review of its actions.
That seems likely to be the outcome of the latest TSA cases to reach U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals: