Wiretap Cases a Go Despite FISA Change

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Wiretap Cases a Go Despite FISA Change
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

By Evan Hill | Though Congress put a damper this summer on legal efforts to prove the Bush administration unlawfully spied on Americans’ phone calls and e-mails, flagship litigation in the Northern District of California will still proceed.

Chief Judge Vaughn Walker laid out a briefing schedule at a hearing Friday for In re National Security Agency Telecommunications Records Litigation, MDL 06-1791 — the consolidated suits against the government and numerous telecommunications giants like AT&T, Verizon and Sprint.

Walker first made quick work of the scheduling for Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation v. Bush and granted the Islamic charity the opportunity to file a motion arguing that it’s an “aggrieved party” under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a status that would allow Walker to use classified evidence of government spying to determine if illegal surveillance had occurred.

http://rinf.com/alt-news/surveillance-big-brother/wiretap-cases-a-go-despite-fisa-change/4624/
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202423372625

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