Legal News

A 32-year-old Muslim woman from Dearborn Heights filed a federal lawsuit today against a Wayne County judge, claiming he forced her to take off her hijab, an Islamic headscarf, during a court appearance in June...  Raneen Albaghdady... is a native of Iraq ... and is part Shi?ite and part Sunni. She was in court before Wayne County Circuit Judge William Callahan in Detroit on June 16 to change her name. She said she had previously changed her name because her family had fled oppressive rule under Saddam Hussein and was scared of retaliation. Her attorney, Nabih Ayad, said at the press conference that it ?is very demeaning? for a Muslim woman to be asked to remove her hijab in public.  Muslim women who wear hijab don?t usually reveal their hair to men outside their family.