Pseudonymous letters sent to the U.S. government alleging a Kuwaiti-based government contractor was engaging in illegal business activity with Iran were political speech, a split Superior Court has ruled in ordering the trial court to apply a heightened standard in determining whether the letters’ authors could be disclosed.
In Kuwait & Gulf Link Transport v. Doe, the majority reversed the Cumberland County Court of Common Pleas decision that determined the letters, admittedly authored by undisclosed employees of the contractor’s competitor, were commercial speech and that the identity of the authors should be disclosed.
