State Secrets Privilege And Other Limits On Litigation Involving Classified Information

Author : Edward C. Liu
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437928021
Total Pages : 23 pages
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Download or read book State Secrets Privilege and Other Limits on Litigation Involving Classified Information written by Edward C. Liu and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The state secrets privilege is a judicially created evidentiary privilege that allows the gov¿t. to resist court-ordered disclosure of info. during litigation, if there is a reasonable danger that such disclosure would harm the national security of the U.S. The Classified Info. Procedures Act provides pretrial procedures that permit a trial judge to rule on questions of admissibility involving classified info. before introduction of the evidence in open court. Contents of this report: (1) U.S. v. Reynolds: The Seminal Case: Asserting the Privilege; (2) Totten v. U.S.: The Special Case of Nonjusticiable Contracts for Espionage; (3) The Classified Info. Procedures Act and Secret Evidence in Criminal Litigation; and (4) Legislative Modification of the State Secrets Privilege.

Author : Congressional Research Service: The Libr
Publisher : BiblioGov
ISBN 13 : 9781295245246
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crs Report for Congress written by Congressional Research Service: The Libr and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The state secrets privilege is a judicially created evidentiary privilege that allows the government to resist court-ordered disclosure of information during litigation, if there is a reasonable danger that such disclosure would harm the national security of the United States. The Supreme Court first described the modern analytical framework of the state secrets privilege in the 1953 case of United States v. Reynolds. In its opinion, the Court laid out a two-step procedure to be used when evaluating a claim of privilege to protect state secrets. First, there must be a formal claim of privilege, lodged by the head of the department which has control over the matter, after actual personal consideration by that officer. Second, a court must independently determine whether the circumstances are appropriate for the claim of privilege, and yet do so without forcing a disclosure of the very thing the privilege is designed to protect. If the privilege is appropriately invoked, it is absolute and the disclosure of the underlying information cannot be compelled by the court. The Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) provides pretrial procedures that permit a trial judge to rule on questions of admissibility involving classified information before introduction of the evidence in ...

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Download or read book The State Secrets Privilege and Other Limits on Litigation Involving Classified Information written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Air Force refused to provide the documents to the court, the district court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs on the issue of negligence; the court of appeals subsequently affirmed the district court's ruling.12 The Supreme Court reversed. [...] With respect to the facts at hand, the Court noted that the Secretary of the Air Force had filed a formal assertion of the privilege, and that there was a reasonable danger "that the accident investigation report would contain references to the secret electronic equipment which was the primary concern of the mission." Id. [...] In Reynolds, the Court noted that the necessity of the underlying information to the litigation will determine "how far the court should probe in satisfying itself that the occasion for invoking the privilege is appropriate."22 In the case of Reynolds, the Court noted that the Air Force had offered to make the surviving crew members available for examination by the plaintiffs.23 Because of this al [...] Therefore, because "the very subject matter of [the] action is a state secret,"35 the court was required to dismiss the suit upon the successful invocation of the privilege by the government.36 In contrast, the Ninth Circuit held that the state secrets privilege only excluded privileged evidence from discovery or admission at trial, and did not require the dismissal of the complaint at the pleadin [...] This rule was first enunciated in Totten v. United States, in which the Supreme Court dismissed a breach of contract claim brought against the government by the estate of a former Civil War spy for the Union.39 The Court dismissed the claim noting that "public policy forbids the maintenance of any suit in a court of justice, the trial of which would inevitably lead to the disclosure of matters whi.

Author : Jonathon W. Collingsworth
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ISBN 13 : 9781608769674
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The State Secrets Privilege and Other Limits on Classified Information written by Jonathon W. Collingsworth and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The State Secrets Privilege is an evidentiary rule created by United States legal precedent. The court is asked to exclude evidence from a legal case based solely on an affidavit submitted by the government stating court proceedings might disclose sensitive information which might endanger national security and military secrets in particular as in the case of United States v. Reynolds, the first case that saw formal recognition of the privilege.

Author : Federal Judicial Federal Judicial Center
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781541389793
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keeping Government Secrets written by Federal Judicial Federal Judicial Center and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As courts adjudicate cases involving classified information, they must protect government secrets. The Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) provides procedures for protecting classified information in criminal prosecutions. Similar procedures are used in civil cases. The courts are assisted in their protection of government secrets by classified information security officers provided by a small office in the Department of Justice's Management Division called the Litigation Security Group.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
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Download or read book Reform of the State Secrets Privilege written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Timothy Reagan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
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Download or read book Keeping Government Secrets written by Robert Timothy Reagan and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward C. Liu
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437919626
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State Secrets Privilege and Other Limits on Litigation Involving Classified Information written by Edward C. Liu and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The state secrets privilege is a judicially created evidentiary privilege that allows the gov¿t. to resist court-ordered disclosure of info. during litigation, if there is a reasonable danger that such disclosure would harm the nat. security of the U.S. Contents of this report: (1) U.S. v. Reynolds: Asserting the Privilege; Evaluating the Validity of the Privilege; Effect of a Valid Privilege; (2) Totten v. U.S.: Special Case of Nonjusticiable Contracts for Espionage; (3) Classified Info. Procedures Act and Secret Evidence in Criminal Litigation:Withholding Classified Info. During Discovery; Confrontation Clause and the Use of Secret Evidence at Trial; (4) Legislative Modification of the State Secrets Privilege: Foreign Intell. Surveillance Act; State Secrets Protection Act.

Author : Lara H. Nellington
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ISBN 13 : 9781606927113
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book State Secrets Protection Act written by Lara H. Nellington and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ''state secrets privilege'' is a common law rule of evidence that the Federal Government can invoke to prevent materials from being publicly disclosed in civil court proceedings, if the Government establishes that such disclosure would harm the Nation. In the early 1970s, Congress considered including a state secrets provision in the Federal Rules of Evidence, but it ultimately decided not to include any privileges. Although numerous laws govern the handling of classified documents and other information that may implicate state secrets in specific contexts, the state secrets privilege has never been codified in statute

Author : Blair S. Fermin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781536137088
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Examining the State Secrets Privilege written by Blair S. Fermin and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a democracy, the public should have the right to know what the government is doing. Secrecy should be the rare exception, reserved for a few cases in which the national security is truly at stake. This book is the hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate that took place on February 13th 2008. While considering the state secrets privileges, assertions of the privilege by the executive branch were examined as well.The state secrets privilege is a common law evidentiary privilege that shields sensitive national security information from disclosure in litigation. The government is the only party that can assert the privilege, and application of the privilege can result in dismissal of civil litigation. The United States Senate, in this book, discuss the importance that courts act as an independent check on the government when it asserts the state secret privilege. It proposes a policy designed to promote a meaningful, independent review.