The Supreme Court has agreed to review Secret Service agents’ claims that they should be immune from a suit by a man they arrested after he confronted Vice President Dick Cheney in a Colorado mall in 2006. The case is one of a series in which justices are sorting out the boundaries of qualified and absolute immunity.

The Supreme Court has agreed to review Secret Service agents’ claims that they should be immune from a suit by a man they arrested after he confronted Vice President Dick Cheney in a Colorado mall in 2006. The case is one of a series in which justices are sorting out the boundaries of qualified and absolute immunity.

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It was a California murder case involving a meth-addicted county toxicologist, her secret affair with her boss and a rose petal-covered crime scene evocative of the iconic film “American Beauty.” Now it’s an appeal hinging on the results of new lab tests.

The CIA may exempt from Freedom of Information Act disclosure materials that reveal intelligence sources and methods, even though they relate to the secret detention and interrogation program deemed illegal by the Obama administration in 2009, a New York federal judge has ruled, rejecting a claim by the ACLU and other plaintiffs. The ruling was the latest in a series in the six-year-old FOIA litigation on materials relating to the treatment of prisoners and rendition of detainees to countries that practice torture.