GoKawiilAppeals court orders DOJ to narrow sweeping LinkedIn journalist-data subpoena
A federal appeals court ruled that the Justice Department's request for 18 months of LinkedIn communications from numerous journalists was too broad, sweeping in confidential sources unrelated to its leak investigation into a classified military report. The three-judge panel, led by Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, declined to void the order entirely but directed the district court to significantly narrow its scope. The ruling also noted that a year-long secrecy order had kept affected journalists unaware that their First Amendment rights were at stake.