Mealey's (May 3, 2023, 2:21 PM EDT) -- SEATTLE — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and several ACLU affiliates collaborated on an amicus curiae brief supporting Twitter Inc.’s petition for rehearing en banc by the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals over a gag order precluding it from going public about its compliance with FBI surveillance orders, with the amici asserting that a panel’s ruling in favor of the government supported the imposition of “a quintessential prior restraint” that infringed Twitter’s First Amendment rights....