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 : U. S. Senate
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ISBN 13 : 9781480150775
Total Pages : 54 pages
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Download or read book State Secrets Protection Act written by U. S. Senate and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 54 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 Governmentestablishes 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 decidednot to include any privileges.1 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. The Supreme Court addressed the state secrets privilege at length for the first (and last) time in United States v. Reynolds,2 a 1953 tort suit brought by widows of civilian engineers who diedin an Air Force plane crash. The Reynolds decision has been criticized as internally contradictory and excessively deferential to the Executive,3 and commentators dispute the extent to which it is followedby lower courts today.4 Nevertheless, it remains the foundational case on the privilege and the starting point for judicial review of privilege claims. As one commentator describes it, the analyticalframework established in Reynolds comprises several basicprinciples:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 53 pages
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Download or read book State Secrets Protection Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 : 236 pages
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Download or read book State Secret Protection Act of 2009 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 2009 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward C. Liu
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437919626
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 2010-03 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 : United States. Congress
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781983790089
Total Pages : 84 pages
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Download or read book State Secrets Protection Act Of 2008 written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State Secrets Protection Act of 2008 : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, on H.R. 5607, July 31, 2008.

Author : United States House of Representatives
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ISBN 13 : 9781693929120
Total Pages : 84 pages
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Download or read book State Secrets Protection Act Of 2008 written by United States House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State Secrets Protection Act of 2008: hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, on H.R. 5607, July 31, 2008.

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 : 88 pages
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Download or read book State Secrets Protection Act of 2008 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 2009 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book STATE SECRETS PROTECTION ACT... REPORT... REPORT 110-442... U.S. SENATE, 110TH CONGRESS, 2ND SESSION. written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Blair S. Fermin
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ISBN 13 : 9781536137088
Total Pages : 335 pages
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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.