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Obama Administration Will Not Ask Supreme Court To Take Up National Security Letter "Gag Order" Decision

By ACLU

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NEW YORK ? The government will not ask the Supreme Court to review a decision that struck down Patriot Act provisions that allow the government to impose unconstitutional gag orders on recipients of national security letters (NSLs). NSLs issued by the FBI require recipients to turn over sensitive information about their clients and subscribers. A lower court ruled in 2007 that the gag order provisions were unconstitutional, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld that ruling in 2008. The government's time for petitioning the Supreme Court for review has now expired.

Full post as published by ACLU Newsroom on May 18, 2009 (boomark / email).

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