SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Wednesday revived a suit by a Stanford University Ph.D. student from Malaysia who claims she was mistakenly put on the federal government’s “No-Fly List” and banned from returning to California.

A divided three-judge panel in Ibrahim v. DHS, 10-15873 reversed San Francisco U.S. District Judge William Alsup, who had tossed the woman’s claims, saying she lost her right to sue when she voluntarily traveled from California to Malaysia for a conference in 2005.

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