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Late yesterday, a court unsealed three motions filed by the ACLU and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) last month on behalf of Birgitta Jonsdottir, the Icelandic parliamentarian whose Twitter account records were targeted by the government in connection with its investigation related to WikiLeaks.

We filed these motions in late January, but because they were initially placed under seal by the court, we couldn't tell anyone about them until the court unsealed them last night. One of the motions seeks to overturn a federal court order requiring Twitter to turn over the private records of some of its users on the grounds that the order is overbroad and violates our client's constitutional rights. The second motion seeks to unseal court records concerning government attempts to collect our client's private records from Twitter and other companies. The third motion asked the court to unseal the original two motions and the hearing.

A public hearing on the motions is set for February 15 in the United States District Court in Alexandria, Virginia.