Judge finds NSA program unconstitutional
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A federal judge on Thursday struck down President Bush's warrantless surveillance program, saying it violated the rights to free speech and privacy, as well as the separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution.
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A recent federal judge rejected the Department of Justice's request to force a defendant to cough up his PGP passphrase. We were unsuccessful in getting the agency to elaborate.
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A federal court judge ruled Tuesday that a presidential pardon of a former junta leader was unconstitutional, the state news agency Telam said.
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NEW YORK -- A federal judge struck down parts of the revised USA Patriot Act on Thursday, saying investigators must have a court's approval before they can order Internet providers to turn over records without telling customers.
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A divided U.S. appeals court strikes down a lower court's ruling that a federal government wiretapping program is illegal.
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Citing national security, a federal judge Tuesday threw out a lawsuit aimed at blocking AT&amp;T from giving telephone records to the government for use in the war on terror.
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A federal judge who used to authorize wiretaps in terrorism and espionage cases criticized yesterday President Bush's decision to order warrantless surveillance after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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A federal appeals court removed a serious legal challenge to the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program yesterday, overruling the only judge who held that a controversial surveillance effort by the National Security Agency was unconstitutional.
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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.
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Declaring that personal security is as important as national security, a judge Wednesday blocked the government from conducting secret, unchallengeable searches of Internet and telephone records as part of its fight against terrorism.
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A federal judge struck down controversial portions of the USA Patriot Act in a ruling that declared them unconstitutional yesterday, ordering the FBI to stop its wide use of a warrantless tactic for obtaining e-mail and telephone data from private companies for counterterrorism investigations.
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A federal judged ruled that the Web site was not protected by the First Amendment because it incited criminal conduct.
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A US judge on Thursday struck down a law allowing federal anti-terrorism agents to access financial, telephone and Internet records without a warrant.
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US News, In a blow to the Justice Department&#39;s post-Sept. 11 powers, US District Judge Victor Marrero on Wednesday struck down the provision of the Patriot Act that let the FBI gather phone and Web customer
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A federal judge struck down parts of the new U.S.A. Patriot Act that authorized the F.B.I. to use informal secret demands called national security letters.
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A federal judge struck down President Bush's authority to designate groups as terrorists, saying his post-Sept. 11 executive order was unconstitutional and vague, according to a ruling released Tuesday.
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A Montgomery County judge has ruled that Maryland's anti-spam law -- one of the first attempts to control junk e-mail advertising -- is unconstitutional because it seeks to regulate commerce outside the state's borders.