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Emails to anti-Trump website are protected by First Amendment
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 00:39:58 -0400
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From: Paul Alan Levy <plevy () citizen org> Date: September 7, 2017 at 5:59:32 PM EDT To: "dave () farber net" <dave () farber net> Subject: Emails to anti-Trump website are protected by First Amendment Today, both Public Citizen and EFF filed briefs opposing the federal government’s raid on the users of an anti-Trump web site. Public Citizen’s filing was on behalf of three anonymous Internet users who either sent email to the DisruptJ20 web site, or received email from the site, or belonged to listservs maintained by the site. EFF filed an amicus brief in support of limitations proposed by DreamHost but also suggesting a number of other limitations. Both briefs, as well as the submissions from the Government and from DreamHost, are linked from this blog post http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2017/09/anonymous-users-objection-to-search-warrant-seeking-to-identify-users-who-communicated-with-trump-in.html Paul Alan Levy Public Citizen Litigation Group 1600 20th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20009 (202) 588-7725 https://www.citizen.org/our-work/litigation/internet-free-speech Twitter: @paulalanlevy Public Citizen Foundation participates in the Combined Federal Campaign with the CFC Code 11168 From: Nadia Prupis Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2017 4:57 PM To: AllPC <allpc () citizen org> Subject: Emails to anti-Trump website are protected by First Amendment NOTE TO REPORTERS Court Should Not Permit Trump Administration to Identify DisruptJ20.org Emailers, Says Public Citizen in Legal Brief Public Citizen Attorney Available for Comment Sept. 7, 2017 Contact: Nadia Prupis, nprupis () citizen org, (202) 588-7779 Angela Bradbery, abradbery () citizen org, (202) 588-7741 Public Citizen today filed a brief asking a court to exclude email communications and a listserv of email addresses from documents subpoenaed by the U.S. Department of Justice in its investigation of 230 people arrested on the day of the president’s inauguration. Public Citizen told the Superior Court of the District of Columbia that the U.S. government lacks an adequate basis for seeking the identities of anonymous “Does” who had an email connection with the DisruptJ20.org domain, or were part of at least one of its listservs. Moreover, the First Amendment protects the right to speak and read anonymously, the brief explains. Additionally, the brief continues, there is reason to question whether the government has shown probable cause to believe that the DisruptJ20.org website shows evidence of criminal intent or the planning of criminal activity. Public Citizen last week filed a motion to intervene on behalf of three Does after Chief Judge Robert E. Morin said the platform company DreamHost must hand over some user information about the website’s visitors. Today’s brief asks the court to should pause proceedings until the anonymous users can file an appeal if the court does not exclude email communications or listserv addresses from the warrant. Public Citizen attorney Paul Alan Levy, who authored the motion to intervene and today’s brief, is available for comment. The brief and motion to intervene are available here. ### View this note on our press page. © 2017 Public Citizen • 1600 20th Street NW / Washington, D.C. 20009 • unsubscribe
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