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A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit against a Wayne County judge accused of telling a woman to remove her Islamic head scarf.
U.S. District Judge Marianne O. Battani ruled there was no evidence Wayne Circuit Judge J. William Callahan knew Raneen Albaghdady's head covering had religious significance when he asked her to remove it during a name change petition last June.
"Albaghdady never protested removal of her head piece, she never informed defendant that her 'hat' was a hijab, and most critically, when asked to remove it, said, 'OK. It doesn't matter,'" Battani said in an 11-page opinion dismissing the lawsuit brought by the woman and the Council on American-Islamic Relations of Michigan.