Feds ask court to drop wiretapping case
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The Bush administration asked an appeals court Thursday to step in immediately and dismiss a lawsuit over the government's warrantless eavesdropping program, calling a lower judge's ruling dangerous and wrong.
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California will drop charges against spy--because he faces federal court sanctions.
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A federal appeals court on Friday ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging President Bush's domestic spying program, saying the plaintiffs had no standing to sue.
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A federal appeals court ordered the dismissal Friday of a lawsuit challenging President Bush's domestic spying program, saying the plaintiffs had no standing to sue.
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A phone company cut off a FBI foreign-intelligence wiretap after the FBI failed to pay its bills, according to an internal audit. The disconnection was just one consequence of the FBI's routine late payments to the nation's telecoms for wiretaps and surveillance infrastructure.
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The New York Times asked the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday to block the federal government from reviewing the phone records of two reporters in a leak investigation.
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Washington can continue wiretapping without warrants until its appeal against a ban on the practice is heard, a US court rules.   A US government wiretap scheme breaches the constitution and should be halted at once, a judge says.
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A U.S. civil liberties group asked a   federal judge on Tuesday to halt a contentious domestic spying   program that the U.S. government argues is essential to   national security.
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The Justice Department launched an appeal within hours of a federal judge's ruling that, for the first time, struck down President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program as an unconstitutional infringement on the right to privacy and free speech.
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Federal authorities have asked a US District Court judge to shut down an operation that they said installed intrusive spyware on people&#39;s computers and then sold the victims anti-spyware software
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WASHINGTON -- In what regulators are calling a first, the federal government has asked for a court order to shut down a spyware operation.
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U.S. Justice Department lawyers filed an appeal Friday aimed at blocking a lawsuit by a former Islamic charity that has challenged a Bush administration secret surveillance program.
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The justices deal a blow to privacy advocates and civil rights activists while bolstering the Bush administration's secret wiretapping campaign.
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By HOPE YEN  WASHINGTON - The Bush administration asked an appeals court Thursday to step in immediately and dismiss a lawsuit over the government's warrantless eavesdropping program, calling a lower judge's ruling dangerous and wrong.  The Justice Department asked the 9th U.S.
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Claiming national security concerns, and backed by Justice Department special counsel, the phone provider argues in federal court that a lawsuit against it for ponying up millions of phone records for a secret government data-mining program should be dismissed. Ryan Singel reports from the courthouse.
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A US appeals court dismisses a lawsuit challenging the Bush administration's domestic spying programme.
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A federal judge who used to authorize wiretaps in terrorist and espionage cases criticized President Bush's decision to order warrantless surveillance after the Sept. 11 attacks.