Update – 8/1/2025: This is a follow up post to our November 2024 post “Omnibus Nondisclosure Orders Challenged.” On July 18, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (“DC...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently heard argument on a challenge to law enforcement’s increasingly common practice of obtaining nondisclosure orders (“NDOs”) that cover an entire investigation rather than an individual...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced proposed legislation that would impose substantial restrictions on government surveillance and access to data. The Government Surveillance Reform Act (“GSRA”) is a comprehensive privacy reform bill that would: (1) reauthorize...

On August 9, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued the public version of its decision (first issued last month) affirming a nondisclosure order (“NDO”) imposed on Twitter in connection with a...