American Civil Liberties Union v. James Clapper

American Civil Liberties Union v. James Clapper, No. 13-3994 (S.D. New York December 28, 2013), was a lawsuit by the civil liberties promoting nonprofit organization the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and its affiliate, the New York Civil Liberties Union, against the United States federal government that challenged the legality of the National Security Agency (NSA)’s bulk phone metadatacollection program. On December 27, 2013, the court dismissed the case, finding that metadata collection did not violate the Fourth Amendment. On January 2, 2014, the ACLU appealed the ruling to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. On May 7, 2015, the appeals court ruled that Section 215 of the Patriot Act did not authorize the bulk collection of metadata, which judge Gerard E. Lynch called a “staggering” amount of information.

Read more about this lawsuit on wikipedia and in the articles below.

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Declaration by Bill Binney on EFF.

Background of the case on Wikipedia.

Case documents on ACLU.

Bill Binney & Litigation to Hold the NSA Accountable

Dec 1, 2017 | ACLU v. Clapper, Article, Jewel v. NSA, Schuchardt v. President, Valdez v. NSA

This article originally published on the Solari Report. “On the basis of the documents that I have reviewed, I can advise the Court that the allegations in the Plaintiff’s complaint are true and correct: Defendants are intercepting, accessing and storing Schuchardt’s...