Archives for November 2013

Jewel v. NSA; First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles v. NSA

November 18, 2013

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 13 other news organizations seek to join as amici curiae in support of lawsuits to bar National Security Agency”s wholesale surveillance of Americans.

Amicus Curiae Brief of Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and others (FUC)

Amici Curiae Brief of Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and others (Jewel)

The underlying lawsuits were brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Non-Party Movants v. Chevron Corp. (Chevron Corp. v. Donziger)

November 7, 2013

Human Rights Watch, Automattic Inc. (WordPress), anonymous bloggers and online activists file amici curiae brief in the United States Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit, arguing that foreigners using American blogging platforms have a First Amendment right to anonymity.  In the underlying litigation, the anonymous speakers were represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Amici Brief of Human Rights Watch, et al.