{"id":19054,"date":"2023-05-08T20:52:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T20:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/in-the-state-secrets-defense-once-affidavit-is-filed-the-court-is-then-obligated-to-grant-utmost-deference-to-the-representations-of-the-agency-and-suppress-the-evidence-should-the-court-revie\/"},"modified":"2023-05-08T20:52:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T20:52:27","slug":"in-the-state-secrets-defense-once-affidavit-is-filed-the-court-is-then-obligated-to-grant-utmost-deference-to-the-representations-of-the-agency-and-suppress-the-evidence-should-the-court-revie","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/in-the-state-secrets-defense-once-affidavit-is-filed-the-court-is-then-obligated-to-grant-utmost-deference-to-the-representations-of-the-agency-and-suppress-the-evidence-should-the-court-revie\/","title":{"rendered":"In the &#8220;State Secrets&#8221; defense, once affidavit is filed, the Court is then obligated to &#8220;grant utmost deference&#8221; to the representations of the Agency, and suppress the evidence. Should the Court review the evidence first and make its own determination?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-size: 16px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-item-id=\"null\">In the &#8220;State Secrets&#8221; defense, there is not a need for a responsive pleading (the answer to the complaint). Once the affidavit is filed (the classified version would not be reviewed by Plaintiff&#8217;s Counsel), the Court is then obligated to &#8220;grant utmost deference&#8221; to the representations of the Agency Head, and suppress the evidence.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 16px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-item-id=\"null\">Should the Court review the evidence first and make its own determination? Assume the court can review classified information<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the &#8220;State Secrets&#8221; defense, there is not a need for a responsive pleading (the answer to the complaint). Once the affidavit is filed (the classified version would not be reviewed by Plaintiff&#8217;s Counsel), the Court is then obligated to &#8220;grant utmost deference&#8221; to the representations of the Agency Head, and suppress the evidence. Should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[706],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/19054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/19054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=19054"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=19054"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=19054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}