State Secrets Privilege Cases

• General Dynamics Corps. v. United States, No. 09-128* (U.S. May 23, 2011)
• Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc., No. 08-15693, 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 18746 (9th Cir. Sept. 8, 2010) (en banc), cert. denied, No. 10-778 (U.S. May 16, 2011).
  • Letter to the Attorney General: Call for Inspector General InvestigationPursuant to the Department of Justice's State Secrects Policy, May 16, 2011
  • Audio of Oral Argument, Dec. 15, 2009
  • Opposition to Petitions for Rehearing or Rehearing En Banc, July 6, 2009
  • Petition for Rehearing En Banc, June 12, 2009
  • Ninth Circuit Opinion, April 28, 2009
  • Reply Brief of Plaintiffs-Appellants, September 25, 2008
  • Brief of Plaintiffs-Appellants, June 30, 2008
  • District Court Opinion, February 13, 2008
  • Memo of Plaintiffs in Opposition to Government's Motion to Dismiss, December 14, 2007
  • First Amended Complaint, August 1, 2007
  • Complaint, May 30, 2007
• Horn v. Huddle, 699 F. Supp. 2d 236 (D.D.C. 2010).
  • Memorandum Opinion
  • Brief for the Appellant (Gov't Brief), September 24, 2009
  • Court Denies Gov't Motion for Stay, September 4, 2009 (stay granted by appellate court September 10, 2009)
  • Gov't Moves to Appeal August 26, 2009 Court Order, September 2, 2009
  • Order Requiring Gov't to Grant Clearances to Plaintiff's Counsel, August 26, 2009
  • Order to Unseal Certain Court Records, July 20, 2009
  • Order Regarding Recent Disclosures of Covered Individuals' Identities, February 6, 2009 (unsealed and filed June 9, 2009)
  • Order Granting Plaintiff's Motion for Relief, January 14, 2009 (unsealed and filed June 9, 2009)
  • Appeals Court Reverses Dismissal of the Case, June 29, 2007 (unsealed July 20, 2007)
  • Court Order Dismissing Case, July 28, 2004
• Shubert v. Obama, Civil No. 07-cv-00693-VRW (N.D. Cal. 2009).
  • "Statement of Attorney General Eric Holder on Assertion of the State Secrets Privilege in Shubert V. [Sic] Obama," October 30, 2009
  • Government Defendants' Notice of Renewed Motion to Dismiss and for Summary Judgment and Memorandum in Support, October 30, 2009
  • Public Declaration of DNI Dennis C. Blair, October 30, 2009
  • Public Declaration of NSA Director Keith B. Alexander, October 30, 2009
  • Bill Dalton, Obama's State Secrets, Kansas City Star, Nov. 3, 2009
• Jewel v. NSA, Civil No. C:08-cv-4373-VRW (N.D. Cal. 2009).
  • Gov't Motion to Dismiss, April 3, 2009
  • Public Declaration of DNI Dennis C. Blair Asserting the State Secrets Privilege, April 3, 2009
  • Public Declaration of Deborah A. Bonanni in Support of Assertion of State Secrets Privilege, April 3, 2009
  • Case Files from Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Hatfill v. The New York Times Co., 532 F.3d 312 (4th Cir. 2008).
  • Memorandum Opinion Dismissing the Case (not on state secrets grounds), January 30, 2007
  • Plaintiff's Opposition to Motion for Dismissal Under "State Secrets" Doctrine, January 12, 2007
  • Defendant's Motion for Dismissal Under "State Secrets" Doctrine, December 12, 2006
  • Memorandum of Law in Support of Defendant's Motion to Dismiss, December 12, 2006
• Hepting v. AT&T Corp., 508 F.3d 898 (9th Cir. 2007) (severed from Al-Haramain II).
  • Court Order Granting Motion for Dismissal, June 3, 2009
  • Court Denies Gov't Motion to Dismiss, July 20, 2006
  • Court Order on Questions Regarding State Secrets Privilege, June 20, 2006
  • Unclassified Declaration of DNI John D. Negroponte Asserting State Secrets Privilege, May 13, 2006
  • Unclassified Declaration of NSA Director Lt. Gen. Keith B. Alexander in Support of Claim of State Secrets Privilege, May 13, 2006
  • Government's Motion to Dismiss, May 13, 2006
  • Case Files from Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • Amicus Brief
• Al-Haramain Islamic Found., Inc. v. Bush (Al-Haramain II), 507 F.3d 1190 (9th Cir. 2007).
  • Gov't Response to Court Order to Show Cause, May 29, 2009
  • Plaintiff's Response and Memorandum on Motion for Summary Judgment, May 29, 2009
  • Court Order to Show Cause, May 22, 2009
  • Joint Submission Concerning a Protective Order, May 15, 2009
  • Gov't Addresses Plaintiff's Access to Classified Information, February 27, 2009
  • Court Rules That FISA Preempts the State Secrets Privilege, July 2, 2008
  • Appeals Court Ruling Remanding Case to Lower Court, November 16, 2007
  • Court Order Denying Gov't Motion to Dismiss, September 7, 2006
• In re Sealed Case, 494 F.3d 139 (D.C. Cir. 2007).
• ACLU v. NSA (ACLU II), 493 F.3d 644 (6th Cir. 2007).
• El-Masri v. United States, 479 F.3d 296 (4th Cir.), cert. denied, 128 S. Ct. 373 (2007).
  • Government's Opposition to Petition for Certiorari, September 2007
  • Plaintiff's Petition for Certiorari, May 30, 2007
  • Amicus Brief of The Constitution Project, September 2007
  • Amicus Brief of the Bar of the City of New York, September 5, 2007
  • Appeals Court Ruling Upholding Dismissal, March 2, 2007
  • DCIA Porter Goss Asserts State Secrets Privilege, March 8, 2006
  • Court Order Dismissing the Case, May 12, 2006
  • ACLU Document Resources in El-Masri v. Tenet
• Jane Doe v. CIA, Civil No. 05-7939 (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 4, 2007).
• ACLU v. NSA (ACLU I), 438 F. Supp. 2d 754 (E.D. Mich. 2006).
• Marriott Int'l Resorts, L.P. v. United States, 437 F.3d 1302 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 3, 2006), rehearing en banc denied, No. 05-5046, 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 13871 (Fed. Cir. May 3, 2006).
• Terkel v. AT&T Corp., 441 F. Supp. 2d 899 (N.D. Ill. 2006).
• Arar v. Ashcroft, No. CV-04-0249, 2006 WL 1875375 (E.D.N.Y. 2006).
  • En Banc Appeals Court Ruling Upholding Dismissal, November 2, 2009
  • U.S. Asserts State Secrets Privilege in Arar v. Ashcroft, E.D.N.Y., January 18, 2005
  • Memorandum in Support of the United States' Assertion of States Secrets Privilege, January 18, 2005
  • Letter to the Court, January 18, 2005
  • More Case Files from Center for Constitutional Rights
• Taylor v. Nix, 451 F. Supp. 2d 1351 (N.D. Ga. 2006) (applying Georgia law)
• Robinson v. City of Philadelphia, 233 F.R.D. 169 (E.D. Pa. 2005).
• Schwartz v. Raytheon Co., 150 Fed. App'x 627 (9th Cir. 2005).
• Crater Corp. v. Lucent Technologies, Inc., 423 F.3d 1260 (Fed. Cir. 2005).
• Sterling v. Tenet, 416 F.3d 338 (4th Cir. 2005).
• Tenet v. Doe, 544 U.S. 1 (2005).
• Edmonds v. Dep't of Justice, 323 F. Supp. 2d 65 (D.D.C. 2004), cert. denied, 546 U.S. 1031 (2005).
  • Sibel Edmonds Testimony Before House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security Hearing, March 2, 2005
  • Emergency Motion to Open Oral Arguments in Edmonds v. Dep't of Justice, April 20, 2005
• BCG v. Guerrieri, Civil No. 2004CV39 (Weld Cty., Colo. 19th Dist. Ct. 2004).
• Burnett v. Al Baraka Inv. & Dev. Corp., 323 F. Supp. 2d 82 (D.D.C. 2004).
• Tenenbaum v. Simonini, 372 F.3d 776 (6th Cir. 2004).
• Edmonds v. FBI, 272 F. Supp. 2d 35 (D.D.C. 2003) (personal lawsuit against the FBI pursuant to the FOIA and the Privacy Act seeking documents related to plaintiff's employment with the FBI)
• Kasza v. Whitman, 325 F.3d 1178 (9th Cir. 2003).
• Darby v. DOD, 74 F. App'x 813 (9th Cir. 2003).
• Trulock v. Lee, 66 Fed. App'x 472 (4th Cir. 2003).
• McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. United States (McDonnell Douglas III), 323 F.3d 1006 (Fed. Cir. 2003).
• People v. Moore, Civil No. F038944, 2003 WL 723982 (Cal. App. 5 Dist. Mar. 3, 2003).
• Anderman v. Fed. Republic of Austria, 256 F. Supp. 2d 1098 (C.D. Cal. 2003).
• United States ex rel. Schwartz v. TRW, Inc., 211 F.R.D. 388 (C.D. Cal. 2002).
• In re Grand Jury Subpoena Dated Aug. 9, 2000, 218 F. Supp. 2d 544 (S.D.N.Y. 2002).
• DTM Research, LLC v. AT&T Corp., 245 F.3d 327 (4th Cir. 2001).
• Monarch Assurance P.L.C. v. United States (Monarch III), 244 F.3d 1356 (Fed. Cir. 2001).
• Virtual Def. & Dev. Int'l, Inc. v. Republic of Moldova, 133 F. Supp. 2d 9 (D.D.C. 2001).
• Kaye Mounsey v. Allied Signal, Inc., Civil No. 95-4309 SVW, 2000 WL 34017116 (C.D. Cal. 2000).
• Barlow v. United States, Civil No. 98-887X, 2000 WL 1141087 (Fed. Cl. 2000).
• Tilden v. Tenent, 140 F. Supp. 2d 623 (E.D. Va. 2000).
• Landry v. Fed. Deposit Ins. Corp., 204 F.3d 1125 (D.C. Cir. 2000).
• Air-Sea Forwarders, Inc. v. United States, 166 F.3d 1170 (Fed. Cir. 1999).
• Avery Denison Corp. v. Four Pillars, 190 F.R.D. 1 (D.D.C. 1999).
• Ruhrgas AG v. Marathon Oil Co., 526 U.S. 574 (1999).
• Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment, 523 U.S. 83 (1998).
• Linder v. Calero-Portocarrero, 183 F.R.D. 314 (D.D.C. 1998).
• Kasza v. Browner, 133 F.3d 1159 (9th Cir. 1998).
• Monarch Assurance P.L.C. v. United States (Monarch II), 42 Fed. Cl. 258 (Fed. Cl. 1998).
• Rubin v. United States ex rel. Indep. Counsel, 525 U.S. 990 (1998).
• Kronisch v. United States, 150 F.3d 112 (2d Cir. 1998).
• In re Sealed Case, 121 F.3d 729 (D.C. Cir. 1997).
• McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. United States (McDonnell Douglas II), Civil No. 91-1204C, 1997 WL 842408 (D.D.C. 1997).
• Monarch Assurance P.L.C. v. United States (Monarch I), 36 Fed. Cl. 324 (Fed. Cl. 1996).
• Frost v. Perry (Frost II), 919 F. Supp. 1459 (D. Nev. 1996).
• American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Comm. v. Reno, 883 F. Supp. 1365 (C.D. Cal. 1995).
• Frost v. Perry (Frost I), 161 F.R.D. 434 (D. Nev. 1995).
• Black v. United States, 62 F.3d 1115 (8th Cir. 1995), cert. denied, 517 U.S. 1154 (1996).
• Yang v. Reno, 157 F.R.D. 633 (M.D. Pa. 1994).
• Pack v. Beyer, 157 F.R.D. 226 (D. N.J. 1994).
• McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. United States (McDonnell Douglas I), Civil No. 91-1204C, slip op. at 2 (Fed. Cl. June 17, 1993).
• In re Smyth -- Matter of Extradition of Smyth, 826 F. Supp. 316 (N.D. Cal. 1993).
• In re United States, 1 F.3d 1251 (Fed. Cir. 1993).
• Bentzlin v. Hughes Aircraft Co., 833 F. Supp. 1486 (C.D. Cal. 1993).
• Maxwell v. First Nat'l Bank of Md. (Maxwell II), 998 F.2d 1009 (4th Cir. 1993).
• Hyundai Merch. Marine, S.D. v. United States, Civil No. 89 Civ. 2025, 1992 WL 168281 (S.D.N.Y. 1992).
• Bareford v. Gen. Dynamics Corp., 973 F.2d 1138 (5th Cir. 1992).
• United States v. Koreh, 144 F.R.D. 218 (D. N.J. 1992).
• Lawyers Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control, Philadelphia Chapter v. Dep't of Energy, 766 F. Supp. 318 (E.D. Pa. 1991).
• Wilkinson v. FBI, 922 F.2d 555 (9th Cir. 1991).
• Maxwell v. First Nat'l Bank of Md. (Maxwell I), 143 F.R.D. 590 (D. Md. 1991).
• N.S.N. Int'l Indus. v. E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., 140 F.R.D. 275 (S.D.N.Y. 1991).
• Clift v. United States (Clift II), 808 F. Supp. 101 (D. Conn. 1991).
• In re Under Seal, 945 F.2d 1285 (4th Cir. 1991).
• Bowles v. United States, 950 F.2d 154 (4th Cir. 1991).
• Zuckerbraun v. Gen. Dynamics Corp. (Zuckerbraun II), 935 F.2d 544 (2d Cir. 1991).
• Patterson by Patterson v. FBI, 893 F.2d 595 (3d Cir. 1990).
• Zuckerbraun v. Gen. Dynamics Corp. (Zuckerbraun I), 755 F. Supp. 1134 (D. Conn. 1990).
• Greenpeace, U.S.A. v. Mosbacher, 719 F. Supp. 21 (D.D.C. 1989).
• Nejad v. United States, 724 F. Supp. 753 (C.D. Cal. 1989).
• Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. v. Dep't of the Navy, Civil No. CV-86-3292, 1989 WL 50794 (E.D.N.Y. 1989).
• Weston v. Lockheed Missiles & Space Co., 881 F.2d 814 (9th Cir. 1989).
• In re United States, 872 F.2d 472 (D.C. Cir. 1989).
• Dep't of the Navy v. Egan, 484 U.S. 518 (1988).
• United States v. Sarkissian, 841 F.2d 959 (9th Cir. 1988).
• Guong v. United States, 860 F.2d 1063 (Fed. Cir. 1988), cert. denied, 490 U.S. 1023 (1989).
• United States v. Zettl, 835 F.2d 1059 (4th Cir. 1987).
• Xerox Corp. v. United States, 12 Cl. Ct. 93 (1987).
• Foster v. United States, 12 Cl. Ct. 492 (1987).
• Ellsberg v. Mitchell (Ellsberg II), 807 F.2d 204 (D.C. Cir. 1986).
• Fitzgerald v. Penthouse Int'l, Ltd., 776 F.2d 1236 (4th Cir. 1985).
• Sharon v. Time, Inc., 599 F. Supp. 538 (S.D.N.Y. 1984).
• Westmoreland v. CBS, Inc., 770 F.2d 1168 (D.C. Cir. 1985).
• Hobson v. Wilson, 737 F.2d 1 (D.C. Cir. 1984).
• Star-Kist Foods, Inc. v. United States, 600 F. Supp. 212 (Ct. Int'l Tr. 1984).
• Northrop Corp. v. McDonnell Douglas Corp., 751 F.2d 395 (D.C. Cir. 1984).
• Molerio v. FBI, 749 F.2d 815 (D.C. Cir. 1984).
• AT&T v. United States, 4 Cl. Ct. 157 (1983).
• Ellsberg v. Mitchell (Ellsberg I), 709 F.2d 51 (D.C. Cir. 1983).
• U.S. Steel Corp. v. United States, 578 F. Supp. 409 (Ct. Int'l Tr. 1983).
• In re "Agent Orange" Prod. Liab. Litig., 97 F.R.D. 427 (E.D.N.Y. 1983).
• Calloway v. Fauver, 544 F. Supp. 584 (D. N.J. 1982).
• Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago, 561 F. Supp. 537 (N.D. Ill. 1982).
• Ganadera Industrial, S.A. v. Block, 556 F. Supp. 354 (D.D.C. 1982).
• Republic Steel Corp. v. United States, 572 F. Supp. 275 (Ct. Int'l Trade 1982).
• Ceramica Regiomontana, S.A. v. United States, 557 F. Supp. 593 (Ct. Int'l Tr. 1982).
• Nat'l Lawyers Guild v. Att'y Gen., 96 F.R.D. 390 (S.D.N.Y. 1982).
• Halkin v. Helms (Halkin II), 690 F.2d 977 (D.C. Cir. 1982).
• Salisbury v. United States, 690 F.2d 966 (D.C. Cir. 1982).
• Att'y Gen. v. The Irish People, Inc., 684 F.2d 928 (D.C. Cir. 1982).
• Jabara v. Webster, 691 F.2d 272 (6th Cir. 1982).
• Zenith Radio Corp. v. United States, 509 F. Supp. 1282 (Ct. Int'l Tr. 1981).
• Weinberger v. Catholic Action of Haw., 454 U.S. 139 (1981).
• United States v. Feeny, 501 F. Supp. 1337 (D. Colo. 1980).
• Sigler v. LeVan, 485 F. Supp. 185 (D. Md. 1980).
• Farnsworth Cannon, Inc. v. Grimes, 635 F.2d 268 (4th Cir. 1980).
• United States v. Felt (Deep Throat II), 502 F. Supp. 74 (D.D.C. 1980).
• ACLU v. Brown, 609 F.2d 277 (7th Cir. 1979), subsequent decision, 619 F.2d 1170 (7th Cir. 1980) (en banc).
• U.S. v. Felt (Deep Throat I), 491 F. Supp. 179 (D.D.C. 1979).
• Clift v. United States (Clift I), 597 F.2d 826 (2d Cir. 1979).
• Spock v. United States, 464 F. Supp. 510 (S.D.N.Y. 1978).
• Halkin v. Helms (Halkin I), 598 F.2d 1 (D.C. Cir. 1978).
• Loral Corp. v. McDonnell Douglas Corp., 558 F.2d 1130 (2d Cir. 1977).
• Kinoy v. Mitchell, 67 F.R.D. 1 (S.D.N.Y. 1975).
• United States v. Ahmad, 499 F.2d 851 (3d Cir. 1974).
• Black v. Sheraton Corp. of Am., 371 F. Supp. 97 (D.D.C. 1974).
• Pan Am. World Airways v. Aetna Cas. & Sur. Co., 505 F.2d 989 (2d Cir. 1974).
• N.Y. Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971).
• Heine v. Raus (Heine II), 305 F. Supp. 816 (D. Md. 1969).
• Heine v. Raus (Heine I), 261 F. Supp. 570 (D. Md. 1966), vacated, 399 F.2d 785 (4th Cir. 1968).
• Elson v. Bowen, 83 Nev. 515 (Nev. 1967).
• Machin v. Zuckert, 316 F.2d 336 (D.C. Cir.), cert. denied, 375 U.S. 896 (1963).
• Halpern v. United States, 258 F.2d 36 (2d Cir. 1958).
• Republic of China v. Nat'l Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa., 142 F. Supp. 551 (D. Md. 1956).
• Tucker v. United States, 127 Ct .Cl. 477 (1954).
• United States. v. Reynolds, 345 U.S. 1 (1953) (subject of subsequent petition to re-open case during 2003-2006).
  • New Complaint Filed in District Court, Patricia J. Herring, et al., v. United States (E.D. Pa., filed October 1, 2003)
  • Motion to Dismiss New Complaint, filed January 23, 2004
  • Plaintiff's Memorandum in Opposition to Motion to Dismiss, filed February 24, 2004
  • Defendant United States' Reply Brief, filed March 19, 2004
  • Plaintiff's Response and Request for Oral Argument, filed March 25, 2004
  • Oral Argument Set for May 11, 2004, court order entered March 30, 2004
  • Memorandum and Order Dismissing Case, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, September 10, 2004
  • Appeals Court Affirms Dismissal of Case, Third Circuit Court of Appeals, September 22, 2005
  • Petition for Certiorari, December 21, 2005
  • Certiorari Denied, Herring v. United States, 547 U.S. 1123 (2006)

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