ACLU asks DC Circuit not to delay ruling in drone dispute

06/29/12: The Blog of Legal Times reports the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asked a federal appeals court in Washington Friday not to delay hearing a dispute over access to any government documents concerning the use of drones to conduct targeted killings.  The Justice Department, representing the CIA, earlier this month asked the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit to send the dispute back to the trial court for additional proceedings.  DOJ’s request followed the government’s June 20 filing in a related Freedom of Information Act case pending in Manhattan federal district court.  In the New York filing, DOJ lawyers urged a trial judge to shut down the litigation, saying, among other things, that the “requests involve highly classified information.”