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Judge strikes down US Department of Homeland Security restriction

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Judge F. Dennis Saylor in Boston invalidated a US Department of Homeland Security restriction, ruling its rationale exceptionally weak and disconnected from the problems it aimed to address.

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A judge in Boston reviewed a US Department of Homeland Security restriction and found its evidentiary basis lacking.

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Judge F. Dennis Saylor in Boston said the rationale for the restriction was “exceptionally weak”, and the connection between the rule and the problems it purported to address was “exceptionally attenuated”.

He wrote that the US Department of Homeland Security had built the case “almost entirely on a small handful of anecdotes, each of which involved incidents that the new rule would do nothing to prevent or even mitigate”.

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  • What specific restriction was struck down?
  • Will the Department of Homeland Security appeal the decision?

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