[Advocacy Advisors] Twitter v. Holder amicus brief

Wed Feb 18 14:40:37 UTC 2015

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 at 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_amicus.pdf
> [3] https://www.eff.org/cases/twitter-v-holder
>
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