state-secrets-privilege

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-430 Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. v. Yassir Fazaga, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-08 Pending Relisted (4) district-court judicial-review merits-adjudication ninth-circuit privileged-information state-secrets-privilege Whether dismissal of a claim after assertion of the state-secrets privilege requires a district court to adjudicate the merits of the claim using the …
25A113 Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. v. Yassir Fazaga, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-28 Presumed Complete counterterrorism-investigation electronic-surveillance fisa fourth-amendment national-security state-secrets-privilege Whether the state-secrets privilege can be displaced by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act's (FISA) procedures for ex parte review of electroni…
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?
21-1017 Carolyn Jewel, et al. v. National Security Agency, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied Amici (3) civil-rights classified-evidence electronic-surveillance in-camera-review mass-surveillance national-security nonjusticiable standing standing-doctrine state-secrets-privilege Whether the state-secrets privilege can be used to exclude public evidence establishing standing and dismiss a case as nonjusticiable
20-827 United States v. Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, aka Abu Zubaydah, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-18 Judgment Issued Amici (20)Relisted (5) cia cia-contractors civil-procedure classified-information discovery discovery-proceedings executive-privilege foreign-proceedings national-security state-secrets-privilege Whether the court of appeals erred in rejecting the United States' assertion of the state-secrets privilege
20-828 Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. v. Yassir Fazaga, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-18 Judgment Issued Amici (11)Relisted (2) civil-procedure ex-parte-proceedings fisa foreign-intelligence foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act government-surveillance in-camera-review national-security state-secrets-privilege Whether Section 1806(f) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act displaces the state-secrets privilege and authorizes a district court to resolve,…