Bin Laden photos ruling is already released by the court. As the federal appeals court ruled, Bin Laden photos will stay classified.

The US Court of Appeals track sided with the government in judging that putting out in public that the postmortem pictures of the leader and founder of al-Qaida can cause "exceptionally grave harm" to the American people, that's why they have come up with the Bin Laden photos ruling that they recently announced. 

Judicial Watch, a conservative group, was pressing the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Defense to release at least a portion of 59 photos of Osama Bin Laden after he was killed during a raid on his compound in Pakistan two years ago.

Pertaining to the Bin Laden photos ruling, the panel consisting of three judge wrote in their 14-page opinion that the decision they made were swayed by the testimony given by the national security officials who reviewed the images. As they stated in the court papers, the images were "gruesome" and "quite graphic", showing the bullets wound that killed the Al Qaida leader.

However, the lawyers from the Judicial Watch made a dispute that there are apparently inoffensive and innocuous photos of Bin laden depicting a dignified burial at sea, and these were not likely to bring any damages to the country's national security. Despite the arguments, the court stated that the photos are not just any ordinary pictures by they were 'an extraordinary set of images' of the US Military personnel burying the leader of the 9-11 terrorist attack.

Judges Merrick Garland, Judith Rogers and Harry Edwards said in their opinion that the government is keeping the photos not to protect the crime or avid any embarrassment, but rather to avert that killing of American people and to prevent violence against the interests of the country.

The Freedom of Information Act states that government agencies are exempted from disclosing any records that are of interest of foreign policy and national defense.