However, he suggested that there might still be a way to negotiate the release of some of the contested documents.
Handwriting analysis was the first investigative discipline developed specifically to help courts resolve disputes, and for most of the last century judges accepted it uncritically in cases involving contested documents like wills, ransom notes and forged checks.
On Wednesday morning, just minutes before the scheduled hearing, committee staff members said they were informed by the Justice Department that Obama was invoking executive privilege to withhold the contested documents.
In 1997, respecting President Bill Clinton's newly instigated rule that documents should be withheld only if releasing them would involve "foreseeable harm", the Justice Department settled most of the outstanding issues outside court by releasing all but 10 of the contested documents.
See Uber Reply Br. at 5 n. 7. Specifically, Uber objects that the Plaintiffs have not established that any Plaintiff was actually exposed to the information contained in the Onboarding Script or other contested documents such as an Uber Handbook.
As a possible concession, the Iraqis said the contested Air Force document might be examined in the presence of the Secretary General's special envoy, Prakash Shah.
Feinstein and her investigators have fought bitterly with the agency for years over a contested CIA document, and the spies' manipulation of the investigation.
Asked about the documents, Facebook contested the figures but did not elaborate.
The company hasn't contested the authenticity of these documents; instead, it has engaged in legal actions to prevent their dissemination.
Mr. Miller, who represented Nixon for more than 20 years, also asserted Nixon's ownership rights to the White House tapes and documents, a hotly contested issue that took years to resolve.
All the measures are seen as an attack on non-Buddhist minorities, especially the country's 2.2m Muslims who came off worst in a series of outbreaks of inter-communal violence since 2012.The law means that Myanmar joins the growing list of Asian countries where the right to change religion (entrenched in many human-rights documents) is hotly contested.
