Thomas Selby Ellis III

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Person.png Thomas Selby Ellis III   AlchetronRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(judge)
BornThomas Selby Ellis III
1940-05-15
Bogotá, Colombia
Alma materHarvard Law School, Oxford University

Thomas Selby Ellis III is a US judge.

Activities

Ellis ruled in Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA that the NSA were not to be held legally accountable for their PRISM project, claiming that Wikimedia's claim that they were subject to surveillance was "speculative" - a ruling that denied the Snowden revelations.

He also ruled on the case of Lawrence Franklin.

In January 2007, Ellis granted Custer Battles' motion for summary judgment, stating that he founds no evidence of the submission of false claims in the case.

Ellis dismissed Khalid El-Masri's lawsuit against the CIA (who had kidnapped him and subjected him to months of beatings and forced rectal suppositories) on grounds of "national security". [1]

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