Before Friday's Wikileaks hearing, the ACLU said it planned to argue that the original order failed to consider the public interest. "The public has a right to receive information and ideas, especially ones concerning the public interest," said Aden Fine, a senior staff attorney with the organization's First Amendment Working Group.
The controversy began when Bank Julius Baer, one of the largest Swiss banks, asked the court to intervene to stop the dissemination of scores of documents that had been posted to the site by a former employee who claimed they showed a pattern of money-laundering activity.
