If it did, the group's records would be shielded under a Missouri statute.
Mr. Tharit said that "at this stage" no charges would be brought against the soldiers who fired at protesters, because they acted under orders and were shielded under Thai law.
Thanks to those children, Mr Lopez hopes he will now be shielded from deportation, under the terms of the executive action ordered by Barack Obama.
Judge Lamberth held that because the logs were maintained by the Secret Service and not directly by the White House, they could not be shielded from release under the federal Freedom of Information Act.
Senators approved the bill after agreeing on a voice vote to adopt a Democratic amendment that would end what is often singled out as the most flagrant abuse of the bankruptcy system: moves by high-income debtors to shift millions of dollars into the purchase of a house that can be shielded from creditors under the so-called homestead exemption.
The other 73percentt will be shielded from the increase because, under federal law, their Medicare premiums cannot go up more than the increase in their Social Security benefits, and Social Security officials announced last week that there would be no increase in benefits in 2010 because inflation had been extremely low.
Whistleblowers who help uncover data about auto defects would be shielded from prosecution under the bill, which would also extend government jurisdiction over car recalls to 10 years from 8, and over tire defect cases to five years from three.
For about two years, the U.S. government has claimed the negotiations can be shielded from disclosure under laws protecting the national security of the United States.
Like other former militia commanders blamed for war crimes — including Abdul Rashid Dostum and Mohammad Mohaqiq, both senior figures in the government — Hekmatyar would be shielded from prosecution under a 2007 amnesty law passed under former President Hamid Karzai.
They hope to expand on the activist role carved out by immigrants who were brought to the country as children, many of whom would be shielded from deportation under a policy enacted last month by the Obama administration.
