Court Denies EPIC's Rehearing Request, Awards Fees

Posted by Unknown on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @07:18AM from the good-thing-I'm-on-the-no-fly-list dept.

OverTheGeicoE writes "The Electronic Privacy Information Center posted a news release about the DC Circuit Court awarding them attorneys fees yesterday. They are to receive $21,482 in attorneys fees for an open government lawsuit against DHS that ultimately released documents about DHS's airport body scanner program. EPIC used these released documents in EPIC v. DHS, another lawsuit that attempts to end the use of airport body scanners. At the end of an e-mailed version of this news release (EPIC Alert 18.18, not yet posted on the Web), EPIC states that 'EPIC requested an en banc review of the court's decision not to suspend, but, on September 12, 2011, the court declined the request.' Is this the end of EPIC v. DHS, or does this simply open the door for an appeal to the Supreme Court?" The complete ruling (PDF) is available.

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So what we need is... by nman64 · 2011-09-13 07:19 · Score: 5, Funny

...an EPIC WIN in the Supreme Court!
Re:No, no doors were opened in this ruling. by OverTheGeicoE · 2011-09-13 08:59 · Score: 4, Informative

The opinion linked in the summary is not for the case seeking to suspend airport body scanners. The opinion linked here is for a case where EPIC tried to force DHS to release additional documents about body scanners. It does not address the suspension lawsuit at all. All we know about the suspension suit is that, according to information in an e-mail from EPIC, the request for a rehearing was denied.