The Central Intelligence Agency may still exempt from Freedom of Information Act disclosure materials that reveal intelligence sources and methods, even though they relate to the secret detention and interrogation program that has since been repudiated by the government, a federal judge has ruled.

Southern District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein said he lacks the authority to order disclosure of materials on the detention and interrogation program deemed illegal by the incoming Obama administration in 2009

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Hellerstein rejected a claim by the American Civil Liberties Union and other plaintiffs that the act's Exemption 3 cannot be invoked where the material sought concerns actions taken in violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States.

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US Court of Appeals for Washington D.C.

July 20, 2010

US v. Battle

Defendant's convictions for distributing crack cocaine are affirmed in part where the evidence was sufficient to show that defendant made the charged sales. However, defendant's convictions are vacated in part where defendant's convictions on separate counts of distributing crack cocaine and of distributing the same drugs within 1000 feet of a school merge.