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Defending Against the Military: The Posse Comitatus Act’s Exclusionary Rule
Anthony J. Ghiotto[*] [Full text of this Article in PDF is available at this link] Introduction On March 10, 2009, Michael McClendon shot and killed his mother in their hometown of Kinston, Alabama.[1] He then travelled to Samson, Alabama, where he shot and killed...
Examining the Anomalies, Explaining the Value: Should the USA FREEDOM Act’s Metadata Program be Extended?
Susan Landau & Asaf Lubin[*] [Full text of this Article in PDF is available at this link] Introduction The first of Edward Snowden’s disclosures was a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (“FISC”) order requiring that Verizon provide the National Security...
Defense and Deference: Empirically Assessing Judicial Review of Freedom of Information Act’s National Security Exemption
Paulina Perlin[*] [Full text of this Article in PDF is available at this link] Introduction In 1981, the Washington Post submitted a request to the Department of Defense under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”)[1] for “information concerning the failed attempt in...
First Amendment Sentence Mitigation: Beyond a Public Accountability Defense for Whistleblowers
Mailyn Fidler[*] [Full text of this Article in PDF is available at this link] Introduction In October 2018, the federal district court in Minnesota sentenced former Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) agent Terry James Albury to four years in prison under the...