Legal Momentum, Sanctuary for Families, and National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project submitted this brief on VAWA confidentiality protections as Amici in a case in which a criminal defendant sued the Department of Homeland Security to obtain the immigration case file of the victim in the criminal case brought against him. The Amicus brief which serves as a model brief that can be turned into a bench brief was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.