Hi Stephen,
Thanks for doing this! I do think we have an interest in this case and questions about such letters have been raised even within our community.
The way I understand it, an amicus brief is like a highly official letter of support but has no palpable legal value. Do such documents play any role for the court or is this rather targeted at the media?
Thanks! Dimi
2015-02-18 6:56 GMT+01:00 Stephen LaPorte slaporte@wikimedia.org:
Hi all,
We have joined six other organizations[1] in an amicus brief[2] in Twitter v. Holder.[3] Twitter initiated this action against the US government to establish the right to publish more detailed info about the number of national security letters it receives in its transparency report.
[1] Aautomattic, Cloudflare, CREDOMobile, Medium, Sonic, and Wickr. [2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/5/54/Twitter_v_Holder_amic... [3] https://www.eff.org/cases/twitter-v-holder
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