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.

A split federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a 2008 injunction barring a Kentucky business owner from using the names “Victor’s Secret” and “Victor’s Little Secret” on an adult novelty and lingerie shop. In a 2-1 vote, the 6th Circuit ruled that, under the Federal Trademark Dilution Act, the use of those names by the Elizabethtown, Ky., business cast an unflattering shadow on the Columbus, Ohio-based chain Victoria’s Secret and potentially hurts its business.

Computer hacker Albert Gonzalez was sentenced in Boston federal court on Thursday to 20 years in prison for two cases that charged him with stealing 40 million debit and credit card numbers from national retailers and a restaurant chain. The 28-year-old Gonzalez, a former Secret Service informant from Miami, received two concurrent 20-year sentences, one for each of the two cases, plus three years of supervised release without any access to computers, and a $25,000 fine.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed an amended complaint in the Bank of America case, and two things caught our attention. First, the new complaint doesn’t include any additional defendants. Second, the SEC now asserts for the first time that Bank of America should have disclosed to shareholders the secret disclosure schedule that contained details about the $5.8 billion allotted for Merrill Lynch bonuses, and that it failed to release a list that properly identified the contents of any omitted schedules.