The Anti-Defamation League argued before a California appellate court that it should not have to comply with a judge’s order to turn over files it gathered on pro-Palestinian activists in the early 1990s. The ADL is appealing a September 1997 ruling ordering the ADL to share with 17 people files it gathered related to their activities. The case stems from 1992, when authorities in San Francisco seized ADL files as part of an investigation into whether the group illegally obtained confidential government documents.
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