Twitter’s 1st Amendment Claim Over Data Collection Gag Order Survives Dismissal

Mealey's ( July 7, 2017, 10:13 AM EDT) -- OAKLAND, Calif. — In a July 6 order, a California federal judge denied the U.S. government’s motion to dismiss Twitter Inc.’s constitutional challenge to its not being permitted to publicly report on its involvement in the FBI’s surveillance program, with the judge finding that “the Government has not met its high burden to overcome the strong presumption of unconstitutionality on the record before the Court” (Twitter Inc. v. Loretta E. Lynch, et al., No. 4:14-cv-04480, N.D. Calif., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 104562)....