“A wealthy Libertarian who is fighting a requirement that airline passengers show identification before traveling asked a federal appeals court Thursday to broaden the scope of his battle to cover other forms of commercial transportation. The request to expand John Gilmore’s case was made during arguments before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is considering his argument that identification demands at airports are illegal searches that violate his right to travel freely throughout the United States. A lower court judge had earlier rejected Gilmore’s case and U.S. government lawyers have refused to confirm or deny a federal law or regulation requiring IDs at airports even exists. Government attorneys say they are barred from disclosing the existence of security-related regulations. Judge Richard Paez, one of the three appellate jurists hearing the case, called the government’s actions ‘odd’ and fellow panelist Judge Stephen Trott accused government lawyers of ‘playing cat-and-mouse’ with the purported identification requirement.” (12/08/05)