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Monday's refusal by the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the appeal by defendants in the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) case not only ended the defendants' hopes for legal relief, but it likely dashed similar hopes for key Islamist organizations named as un-indicted co-conspirators (UCC) in the prosecution.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and ISNA's related North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) were all named UCCs. The designation allowed prosecutors to get statements into evidence that were part of the conspiracy, even if the groups and individuals named were not charged.
These organizations asked the presiding judge to purge their names from the list, and ISNA and NAIT even took his denial to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld his decision. While the courts found that the list should not have been filed in public, the courts refused to remove anyone's name. U.S. District Judge Jorge Solis found "ample evidence" linking CAIR, ISNA and NAIT to Hamas.