MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Lawyers in a lawsuit for six Muslim imams removed from a flight in Minneapolis last year can't agree whether passengers who reported them are being sued.
The lawsuit was filed March 12 as a result of the incident at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Nov. 20 when passengers and the flight crew contacted US Airways to report the men were behaving suspiciously.
The federal suit originally named employees of US Airways, airport staff and the passengers who reported the men named as "John Does," The Washington Times said.
However, the Minneapolis attorney representing the imams, Frederick Goetz, has said the passengers are no longer named in the suit.
The Becket Fund, a religious-freedom advocacy group claims passengers are still targets of the litigation.
The fund applied for friend of the court status on Aug. 1 but a ruling hasn't been made.
Goetz told the Times he had no idea why the Becket Fund was "grandstanding" on the issue he resolved in an Aug. 2 motion that strikes the passengers from the suit.
