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IN RE: CERTIFICATION OF QUESTIONS OF LAW TO
THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE
COURT OF REVIEW
Docket No. FISCR 18-01
Upon Certification for Review by the United States
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Before BRYSON, CABRANES, AND TALLMAN, Judges.
In Docket No. Misc. 13-08, the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court ("FISC") has certified a question of law
to this court pursuant to 50 U.S.C. § 1803G). The certified
question is whether the American Civil Liberties Union ,
the American Civil Liberties Union of the Nation's Capital,
and the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic
have adequately established Article III standing to assert
their claim of a qualified First Amendment right of public
access to FISC judicial opinions.
This court accepts the certification and directs as fol-
lows:
(1) The parties to the proceeding before the FISC are
invited to file supplemental briefs in this matter. 	The

briefs should be no more than 30 pages in length and
should be filed by February 23, 2018.
(2) Pursuant to 50 U.S.C. § 1803(i), this court appoints
Professor Laura Donohue, one of the courts' designated
statutory amici, to serve as amicus curiae in this matter.
The amicus curiae is invited to file a brief of no more than
30 pages within 45 days of the date of this order.
(3) Within 10 days of the date that the last opening
brief is filed by the parties and the amicus curiae, the par-
ties and the amicus curiae may each file a reply brief of no
more than 10 pages.
(4) 	The Clerk is directed to provide each member of
this court with copies of all of the briefs filed with the FISC
in this matter.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
SIGNED this 9th day of January, 2018.
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WILLIAM C. BRYSON
Presiding Judge
United States Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court of Review