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Re: US Supreme Court looking at it today - 29 April 2016
anon131313 5 Reviews 389 reads
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They're available online. They leaked a while ago:

Last month the attorney for the deceased owner of the DC escort service was in court attempting to appeal the rulings that prohibited he release of the infamous " black book ". He claims it would impact the presidential race.
Of course that led to a lot of fun speculation.  
Wondering if anyone knows what the status is?

No , I'm not in the book....lol

This is on today's docket as a "discussion" item.  There's no further information linked from that page
http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles\15a1016.htm
As a discussion item: if half the court wants oral argument or to lift the restraining order and the other four justices oppose it this results in a stalemate, and nothing will happen according to the source below.

The latest article I could find was by an non-mainstream media site called Post & Email that relies on user-submitted content, yet seems to come from someone intimately familiar with the details:
http://www.thepostemail.com/2016/04/16/april-29-scotus-conference-on-dc-madam-petition-provides-window-of-opportunity-for-submission-of-amicus-briefs

They reviewed the appeal, and denied it but there are no records of who voted which way.  Just that "the court" won't relieve (lift/suspend) the restraining order keeping the records officially hidden.

The attorney mentioned he might release them anonymously.  I think he should have kept his mouth shut and instead reported having been "hacked and the records stolen" instead of making himself a target if they're published.

The restraining order he's trying to get lifted looks like it was written to protect someone within the same Government that's preventing release of the records:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/307360219/2007-Restraining-Order-for-D-C-Madam-Records

and there are 5 men on the Supreme Court.....

 
Ahem, just saying

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