Grand Juror Can’t Write About Serving on Michael Brown Case
A Missouri appeals court on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a member of the Michael Brown grand jury who sought to go public with her experience.
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En Banc Surveillance Court Holds ACLU, Yale Have Standing to Seek Data Collection Rulings
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled Thursday that two organizations have standing to seek access to heretofore secret opinions and rulings on the government’s bulk collection of the private data of U.S citizens.
Read moreDocuments Stay Sealed in Oregon Train Attack Case
Sworn statements that led to the indictment of a man accused of killing two people on an Oregon commuter train won’t become public in response to requests by local media, a judge ruled Friday.
Read moreJudge Peels Off Layer of CIA Torture Secrecy
Nearly three years after the Senate chronicled the CIA’s torture program, a federal judge ordered the government Wednesday to disclose certain documents referenced in the report.
Read moreCourt Hides Monitor’s Hand in HSBC Drug-Money Deal
Nearly five years after HSBC paid a $1.92 billion settlement for money laundering involving drug cartels, the Second Circuit sidelined scrutiny Wednesday of the bank’s compliance with reforms.
Read moreJournalist Once Called a ‘FOIA Terrorist’ Sees Uptick in Government Secrecy
Jason Leopold knows a thing or two about the Freedom of Information Act. Buzzfeed’s senior investigative journalist currently has about 2,000 outstanding FOIA requests with federal agencies — 150 of them submitted this year alone. He says that while he found the penchant for government secrecy to be “really bad” under the Obama administration, things have gotten worse since President Donald Trump took office.
Read moreNorth Dakota Bill Aims to Protect Police Informants
A bill to protect confidential police informants in North Dakota has recently received overwhelming support in the state’s legislature.
Read moreNational Security Letters Taken to Ninth Circuit
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday heard arguments that imposing potentially permanent gag orders on companies that must give the FBI information about customers through national security letters, without a warrant, is unconstitutional.
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House Calls for Action on Government Secrecy
Noting that the penalties for underclassifying federal records are steep – compared with the feckless handwringing that greets overclassification – experts told a House committee Wednesday that Congress must take action to curb this crisis.
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