A Malaysan academic who studied, married, and had a child in the United States became the first to successfully challenge her placement on the U.S. no-fly list last month. Rahinah Ibrahim was placed on the federal watchlist that bars individuals from boarding planes because an agent checked the wrong box, but the opinion released Thursday reveals that the error may have precipitated her “Kafkaesque” treatment for years through a “web of interlocking watch lists,” without any information about how or why it was happening.