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EFF Opposes US Government's State Secrets Claim (Again) in Jewel v. NSA, the Warrantless Wiretapping Case
Yesterday, EFF filed its latest brief in the Jewel v. NSA case, aiming to stop the government from engaging in mass warrantless collection of emails, phone calls, and customer records of ordinary Americans. The matter is set for hearing on December 14, 2012 in federal court in San...
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Deeplinks Blog by Kevin Bankston | December 22, 2010
Case Closed? Court Issues Final Judgment in NSA Spying Case, Al-Haramain v. Obama
Yesterday, following on his ruling this Spring that the NSA's warrantless wiretapping of an Islamic charity's lawyers in 2004 violated federal surveillance law, Judge Vaughn Walker in the Northern District of California federal court issued his final order in the case of Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation v. Obama. The...
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Deeplinks Blog by Cindy Cohn | November 23, 2010
EFF Urges Supreme Court to Block Government Overreach in State Secret Contract Dispute
EFF and the plaintiffs in an ongoing lawsuit over a notorious case of illegal government spying urged the U.S. Supreme Court last week to reject a government attempt to have the Court address constitutional questions about the state secrets privilege in a contract dispute case involving the privilege....
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Fight Against Telco Immunity Continues in Court of Appeals
Continuing its efforts to seek judicial review of AT&T's involvement in the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping of millions of Americans, EFF has filed the final brief in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the retroactive immunity provision of the FISA Amendments Act.
The brief explains...
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Deeplinks Blog by Kevin Bankston | March 31, 2010
Court Rejects Government's Executive Power Claims and Rules That Warrantless Wiretapping Violated Law
Today, Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of the federal district court in San Francisco found that the government illegally wiretapped an Islamic charity's phone calls in 2004, granting summary judgment for the plaintiffs in Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation v. Obama. The court held the government liable for violating the Foreign...