Legal Opinion
In re U.S. Dep't of Justice Motion to Compel Facebook to Provide Technical Assistance in Sealed Case
District Court, E.D. California
Decided February 11, 2019No. Misc. Case No. 1:18-mc-00057-LJO-EPGPublished
1Opinion of the Court
Lawrence J. O'Neill, UNITED STATES CHIEF DISTRICT JUDGE
I. BACKGROUND AND ISSUES
On November 28, 2018, Applicants American Civil Liberties Foundation ("ACLU") and W.P. Company LLC, dba The Washington Post, filed applications for the Court to unseal its court ruling pertaining *1043to the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") and Facebook, Inc. ("Facebook").
On February 7, 2018, both DOJ and Facebook filed responses to the pending applications. Due to the substantive nature of the responses that parallel the reasons the proceedings were sealed in the first instance, both of their requests to allow the…
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- Times Mirror Co. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1989
- In Re New York Times Co. to Unseal Wiretap & Search Warrant MaterialsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2009
- United States v. John DoeCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2017
- United States v. Business of the Custer Battlefield Museum & StoreCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2011
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