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JURIST Guest Columnist Aziz Huq, Director of the Liberty and National Security Project at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, says that the El-Masri v. Tenet ruling represents a dangerous trend in "state secrets" cases towards...

El-Masri v. United States, US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, March 2, 2007 [ruling upholding the dismissal of a rendition-related lawsuit by German citizen Khaled El-Masri against the CIA, deciding that the case could not be heard in a US...

The US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Friday upheld the dismissal of a rendition-related lawsuit by German citizen Khaled El-Masri against the CIA , deciding that the case could...

The US Department of Justice urged a federal appeals court Monday to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the NSA's domestic surveillance program pursuant to the state secrets privilege. In a brief submitted to the US Court of Appeals for the...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to uphold a lower court ruling that the NSA domestic surveillance program is unconstitutional, arguing that the program...

A federal judge in Oregon has allowed a lawsuit by the US branch of the Saudi Arabia-based Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation to proceed against the US government over the warrantless wiretapping of communications between the...

A report released Saturday by OpenTheGovernment.org , a private monitoring group, reveals what it described as further expansion of US government secrecy notwithstanding an increase in the number of classified government documents unsealed in 2005....

JURIST Contributing Editor Peter Shane of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that even in the wake of a federal court injunction, meaningful restrictions on the executive's domestic surveillance program require that both the judiciary and the legislative...

ACLU v. NSA, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, August 17, 2006 [rejecting the government's assertion of the state secrets privilege, holding that the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program is unconstitutional and...

The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has ordered that seventeen cases challenging the legality of the NSA's domestic surveillance program be transferred to the chief judge of the US Northern District of...