state-secrets

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-954 Justin Marcus Zinman v. California California 2023-03-30 Denied Response Waived civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech homeland-defense political-ideology second-amendment state-secrets takings Whether allowing a Progressive political ideology to influence the law violates the Establishment clause of the First Amendment?
22-190 Wikimedia Foundation v. National Security Agency/Central Security Service, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-08-30 Denied Amici (3) civil-rights dismissal due-process evidence-review ex-parte-review general-dynamics judicial-dismissal legal-procedure national-security reynolds state-secrets state-secrets-privilege Does the state secrets privilege authorize courts to dismiss actions where plaintiffs can prove their case without privileged evidence?
21-7754 Jerry E. Robertson v. Jefferson County Attorney's Office District of Columbia 2022-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-privilege standing state-secrets Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's case based on the government's assertion of a state-secrets privilege without conducti…
21-7310 Chris Ward Kline v. Matthew C. Johns, Regional Administrator, Department of Health and Human Services Ninth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process human-rights national-security standing state-secrets Whether the state secrets privilege can be invoked to deny a person's civil rights and human rights claims