March 23, 2009

Hearing to determine release of 9/11-related aviation security evidence set for Wednesday, March 25, 2009

The fate of over one hundred deposition transcripts and over a million pages of documents obtained from airlines, security firms and other defendants named in civil cases resulting from the attacks of September 11, 2001, was argued at 4:00 p.m. on March 25, 2009, in front of the Honorable Judge Alvin Hellerstein, Southern District of New York. The families in three remaining aviation security negligence cases, represented by Motley Rice and led by attorney Donald Migliori and joined by The New York Times Company and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP), maintain that this evidence has broad safety implications, public-interest, substantial historical importance and that the defendants abused the conditions of the protective order by which defendants have asserted confidentiality. Therefore, this evidence should not remain shielded from the public.

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