Mealey's (August 14, 2019, 11:39 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — In a brief filed Aug. 12, the U.S. Department of Justice asks the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to uphold a lower court’s decision to maintain the sealed status of court records related to the DOJ’s purported request to compel Facebook Inc. to provide it with access to certain encrypted communications on the social network, invoking the protections of the Wiretap Act (American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, et al. v. U.S. Department of Justice, et al., Nos. 19-15472 and 19-15473, 9th Cir.)....