Adele Halkin v. Richard Helms, Department of State

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• explaining that Super Tire 's holding \rested ... on its finding that the governmental policy challenged ... was one essentially carved in stone and self-executing in nature\
• alleging that defendants “continue to treat Plaintiffs differently from other soldiers and other Sikhs”
• explaining that Super Tire’s holding “rested . . . on its finding that the governmental policy challenged . . . was 11 one essentially carved in stone and self-executing in nature”
• accepting as “the law of the case” the principle that the parties’ burdens should not be altered
• explaining that “matters the revela- tion of which reasonably could be seen as a threat to the military or diplomatic interests of the nation . . . are absolutely privileged from disclosure in the courts”
• upholding dismissal because plaintiffs could not establish standing without use of privileged information that would indicate whether plaintiffs’ communications were intercepted by the government

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