9th Circuit Orders Briefs On State Secrets Privilege In Remanded Surveillance Suit

Mealey's (May 19, 2022, 2:18 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Two months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) does not displace the state secrets privilege, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on May 10 directed the Federal Bureau of Investigation and a group of Muslim Americans who sued over domestic surveillance to submit briefs on questions about application of the privilege that the appeals court should address on remand....