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The decision allows such pseudonymity when the defendant has already been found (by default judgment) to have committed the assault, but Judge Wilkinson's concurrence argues that, absent this unusual factor, one-sided pseudonymity should be frowned on.

The GSRA would renew Section 702, but it also mandates a host of changes that impair the agility of Section 702 as an intelligence tool.

Sure, you've been reading about that grand jury for months. But wouldn't it be fun to pretend in legal filings that we all live in a land of magical make believe?

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) will, in its current form, come up for reauthorization in 2017. Broadly speaking, the Section 702 program targets non-U.S. persons reasonably believed to be located outside the United States, in order to acquire foreign intelligence. Over the past several years, this surveillance of the online activities of foreigners has been a critical and invaluable tool for American intelligence professionals and officials. Knowledgeable officia...

A federal judge's Monday order granting former President Donald Trump's request for a special master to review documents seized from Trump's Mar-a-Lago home and determine if some items may be protected by executive privilege has prompted fresh questions about a former president's entitlements.

Gunwalking was at the heart of Operation Fast and Furious, while the Department of Justice initially told Congress that its agents did not allow guns to walk into Mexico.

The Antonin Scalia Law Schools Gray Center at George Mason University has honored Judge Laurence Silberman of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals with its first annual Justice Clarence Thomas First Principles Award. The Wall Street Journal notes the award to Judge Silberman in its editorial A Judge for First Principles. The symmetry here is perfect. To adapt the phrase Lincoln used in his eulogy of Henry Clay, Justice Thomas

A A This is a major breakthrough in one of our oldest-running lawsuits, now directly against the Biden Administration, about the Obama-Biden Administration’s “Iran lie.” In our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case against the State Department, we just discovered that senior Obama-Biden officials held a “meeting” where a “decision” was made on what to tell the press about its clandestine negotiations with Iran in reaching the infamous “Iran Nuclear Deal.” That “meeting” a...

Scope Records related to a correspondent account in the United States, including records maintained outside of the United States relating to the deposit of funds into the non-US bank. Records relating to a correspondent account in the United States or any account at the non-US bank, including records maintained outside of the United States that are subject to certain enforcement actions (below). Enumerated Enforcement Actions Any investigation of a violation of a criminal law of the United Sta...