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Congressional Research Service: 'State Secrets Privilege - National Security Information in Civil Litigation' (Part 2 of 3)
May 01, 2022
WASHINGTON, May 1 (TNSRep) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R47081) on April 28, 2022, entitled "The State Secrets Privilege: National Security Information in Civil Litigation":

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(Continued from Part 1 of 3)

Deference to the Executive Branch

The government has argued that courts should afford the "utmost deference" to its assertion of the state secrets privilege./106 That argument w . . .

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