Gilmore v. Gonzales
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 United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit |
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| Argued --- December 8, 2005 Decided --- January 26, 2006 |
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| That neither the identification policy nor its application to Gilmore violated Gilmore's constitutional rights | ||||||||
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Gilmore v. Gonzales, 04-15736 (9th Cir. 2006), is a lawsuit filed by John Gilmore against the United States Department of Justice. Gilmore claimed that being required to show identification in order to travel by plane inside the country is unconstitutional. Gilmore also took issue with the secrecy concerning the reasoning behind this edict.
Judges sided against Gilmore, ruling that people can still travel without identification, provided that the individual in question be placed through more stringent security measures. Furthermore, the specific law requiring that airline travelers display identification has been allowed to remain ambiguous.
Gilmore had appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, but CNN reported in early January 2007 that the justices had declined to hear the case.
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In January 2007 the United States Supreme Court declined to hear the challenge to the Ninth Circuit's ruling. [1] This means that the ruling is still valid in that circuit.
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[edit] External links
- Gilmore v. Gonzales at PapersPlease.org
- Justices won't intervene in terror case, CNN, January 8, 2007
- Text of the 9th Circuit decision from the court's web site
- Supreme Court Order Denying Certiorari, Order List 549 US, January 8, 2007, p. 3.
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