DOJ Asks California Federal Court to Dismiss Twitter Lawsuit
The Department of Justice asked the U.S. District Court in San Francisco to dismiss Twitter’s lawsuit against it for refusing the social media company’s request to release a redacted transparency report, according to court documents filed Friday. Twitter sued the…
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FBI and Justice Department in October, asking the court to let it release the “actual scope of surveillance of Twitter users by the U.S. government,” a company blog post said (see 1410080057). “The additional material that Twitter seeks to publish is information that the Government has judged is properly protected classified national security information, the disclosure of which would risk serious harm to national security,” said DOJ's Friday filing. “The law is clear that the First Amendment does not permit such publication, and any restrictions imposed by statutory authority or judicial order on the publication of classified information are lawful under the First Amendment, both on their face and as they may have been applied to Twitter." Twitter didn’t comment. The case number is 14-cv-4480.