MIT, represented by a team from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, last week filed a request to intervene in the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in Washington. JSTOR, the online database of academic journals, has also asked to step into the litigation.
MIT's lawyers, Wilmer partner Patrick Carome and senior associate Laura Hussain, said in their filed papers that the university should be allowed to have a say in the scope of any information released about Swartz, who killed himself in January as federal computer crimes charges were pending against him in Boston.
