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Litigation

May 23, 2013

Discovery dispute erupts over government testimony in 'No-Fly List' case

Rahinah Ibrahim and her attorneys subpoenaed Attorney General Eric Holder and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper last week to take depositions questioning the state secrets privileges they asserted in March.


By Hadley Robinson


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - When the head of the Justice Department stepped into a federal case asserting state secrets privileges protecting information about why a former Stanford University doctoral student was placed on the government's antiterrorist No-Fly List, the plaintiffs' attorneys sought to question him directly.


Rahinah Ibrahim, a native of Malaysia, and her attorneys from San Jose's M...

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