In its First Amendment case against the U.S. government, Twitter won a limited victory as a federal judge ruled out moving the case to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court even as the judge said the First Amendment argument lacked merit. Twitter brought the lawsuit to dispute the government’s limits on telling users the number of federal surveillance requests after a delay of six months. (COMPUTERWORLD, May 3, 2016, by Martyn Williams of IDG News Service)
The judge made it clear that the First Amendment does not allow anyone dealing with classified national security information bound by secrecy to disclose that information. But the judge left a path for Twitter to revive its First Amendment claim with an appeal to the 9th Circuit that the surveillance requests are not classified. (Washington Examiner, May 3, 2016, by Rudy Takala)