Emails to anti-Trump website are protected by First Amendment

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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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
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> Washington, D.C. 20009
> (202) 588-7725
> https://www.citizen.org/our-work/litigation/internet-free-speech
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>  
> 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. 
>
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>
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