Supreme Court to rule on standing to challenge wiretapping law
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in Clapper v. Amnesty International USA to determine whether plaintiffs have standing to challenge a federal eavesdropping law. The plaintiffs, including attorneys, journalists...
JURIST Guest Columnist Jimmy Gurulé of the University of Notre Dame Law School says that Congress may have chosen to protect national security interests over the rights of criminal defendants in allowing a lower standard of constitutional protections under FISA...Defendant...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday unanimously ruled that a law granting immunity from civil suits for telecommunications companies that assist government intelligence agencies is constitutional. The Federal Intelligence Surveillance...
Rights groups urge US appeals court to preserve suit over warrantless surveillance
Lawyers for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Wednesday urged the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Seattle to preserve two lawsuits over the warrantless surveillance of US citizens. EFF argued that...
DOJ petitions federal appeals court for rehearing in wiretapping decision
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday petitioned the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to reconsider a ruling that plaintiffs in Amnesty v. Blai had standing to sue the...
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Monday that the plaintiffs in Amnesty v. Blai have standing to sue the US government over the constitutionality of a federal eavesdropping law,...
Federal judge dismisses government surveillance suit for lack of standing
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California granted summary judgment Monday in favor of the government in CCR v. Obama , ruling that the Center for Constitutional Rights...
FBI involved in hundreds of legal violations over past decade: report
The FBI reported to a presidential oversight board that between 2001 and 2008 it committed approximately 800 violations of laws, executive orders, or other regulations governing intelligence investigations, according to a report released Monday by the Electronic...
Ninth Circuit rejects Patriot Act challenge for lack of standing
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday that a lawsuit seeking to declare parts of the Patriot Act unconstitutional must be dismissed for lack of standing. Brandon Mayfield...
Federal judge dismisses challenge to overseas wiretapping law
A judge in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit challenging amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that...
