Illston

In a 2013 ruling, Illston found the letters facially unconstitutional because the NSL statute allowed the government to impose indefinite gags in every case, with no obligation for judicial review. The statute also limited the court's ability to weigh ...

Judge Illston cited her own January 2015 refusal to dismiss the case in the order, saying the plaintiffs' contention that Montage didn't disclose that LQW Technology Co. Ltd. — a company that accounted for about 50 percent of Montage's revenue — was ...

The FBI can continue to keep “national security letters” secret after issuing them to demand customer records from phone companies, banks and others, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ruled the letters don't violate ...

In a 2013 ruling, Illston found the letters facially unconstitutional because the NSL statute allowed the government to impose indefinite gags in every case, with no obligation for judicial review. The statute also limited the court's ability to weigh ...

In 2013, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston of San Francisco ruled that the letters violated freedom of speech because they were accompanied by gag orders forbidding the recipients from disclosing that they had been contacted by the FBI. But she put her ...

US District Judge Susan Illston ruled three years ago that NSLs were an unconstitutional infringement of speech. But following her ruling, the law was changed to allow the recipients of the letters in certain and very limited circumstances to disclose ...