ACLU v. U.S. DEPT. OF DEFENSE

Docket No. 17-779 August Term 2017.

901 F.3d 125 (2018)

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, Center for Constitutional Rights, Inc., Physicians for Human Rights, Veterans for Common Sense, Veterans for Peace, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, its components Department of Army, Department of Navy, Department of Air Force, Defense Intelligence Agency, United States Department of the Army, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 21, 2018.

Amended: August 22, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

LAWRENCE S. LUSTBERG , Gibbons P.C., Newark, NJ ( Avram D. Frey , Gibbons P.C., Newark, NJ; Dror Ladin , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, on the brief) for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

BENJAMIN H. TORRANCE , Assistant United States Attorney ( Sarah S. Normand , Assistant United States Attorney; Chad A. Readler , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Douglas N. Letter , Matthew M. Collette , Catherine H. Dorsey , Attorneys, Appellate Staff Civil Division, Department of Justice, on the brief) for Geoffrey S. Berman , United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before: Jacobs, Leval, and Wesley, Circuit Judges.


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