Supreme Court Denies ACLU Wiretap Appeal
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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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The U.S. government on Friday lost a court bid to prevent terrorism detainees gaining access to all readily available documents about them as they challenge their indefinite imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay.
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The Supreme Court declined Monday to consider another issue related to the rights of terrorism suspects &#151; rejecting without comment an appeal by Ali Saleh Kahlab al-Marri, one of three people who have been held in America as enemy combatants without traditional legal rights.
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CINCINNATI, Oct. 4 -- The Bush administration can continue its warrantless surveillance program while it appeals a judge's ruling that the program is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court panel ruled Wednesday.
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A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court&#39;s decision that a Minnesota agency can&#39;t regulate calls through cyberspace like it does calls through traditional phone lines.
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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Monday a free-speech challenge to a New York law banning the wearing of masks at public gatherings by a group claiming ties to the Ku Klux Klan.
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A federal court has ruled part of the USA Patriot Act unconstitutional, saying the FBI can't compel ISPs to turn over user records without notifying those users unless it has a court order or a grand jury subpoena.
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Appeals court upholds ruling against FBI's mobile phone wiretap of an alleged drug dealer because it was based on a deceptive affidavit.
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The ACLU and Muslim advocacy groups sued the FBI and the Justice Department on Tuesday, alleging that authorities failed to turn over records detailing suspected surveillance of the Muslim-American community.
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Blog: Divided panel says American Civil Liberties Union and others didn't have standing to bring the suit in part because they didn't show they'd actually been affected by the eavesdropping.
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The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of a case that ruled that terminally ill patients do not have a constitutional right to try drugs that have not received federal approval.
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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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SUPREME COURT The Supreme Court is refusing to hear a challenge to the federal do-not-call telephone registry. Telemarketers have been trying to invoke free-speech rights to do away with the ban on unwanted phone solicitations.
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The Supreme Court ruled against The New York Times on Monday, refusing to block the government from reviewing telephone records of two Times reporters in a leak investigation concerning a terrorism-funding probe.
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(InfoWorld) - A U.S. appeals court has ordered that a lawsuit against the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) for a wiretapping program be dismissed because the plaintiffs haven't been hurt by the agency's actions. A divided three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled Friday that the lawsuit, brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a group of journalists, lawyers and academics, be sent back to a district court judge to be dismissed. In August 2006, Judge Anna Diggs Taylor of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ruled the NSA program, which monitored telephone and Internet communications without court-ordered warrants, was illegal. The appeals court ruled that the plaintiffs didn't prove they'd been affected by the NSA's Terrorist Surveillance Program, authorized by U.S. President George Bush in 2002. The program allowed the NSA to monitor communications between U.S. residents and people in other countries with suspected ties to terrorist group al Qaeda. The plaintiffs argued, among other things, that the program violated the U.S. Constitution's Fourth Amendment, protecting U.S. citizens against unreasonable search and seizure. But none of the plaintiffs could prove their Fourth-Amendment rights had been violated, wrote appeals court Judge Alice Batchelder. "The plaintiffs cannot show they have been or will be subject to surveillance personally," Batchelder wrote. The plaintiff's attempts to sue for other reasons, including violation of their First-Amendment, free-speech rights, are a "thinly veiled ruse," the judge added. None of the plaintiffs has shown that their speech has been hindered, she wrote. Neither the ACLU nor the U.S. Department of Justice, which appealed the lower court ruling on behalf of the NSA, were immediately available for comment on the ruling. Judge Ronald Lee Gilman disagreed with the two-judge majority, arguing that the NSA program violates the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which establishes wiretapping procedures, including warrants. "When faced with the clear wording of FISA ... the conclusion becomes inescapable that [the program] was unlawful," he wrote.
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A US federal appeals court yesterday upheld a district court ruling in favor of an individual whose e-mail records were copied by government investigators from servers at Yahoo and another ISP. In so doing, the court may have prevented the government from loosely applying a key tool in its ability to obtain e-mail records without a warrant: the Stored Communications Act.
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SUPREME COURT - The Supreme Court is refusing to hear a challenge to the federal do-not-call telephone registry. Telemarketers have been trying to invoke free-speech rights to do away with the ban on unwanted phone solicitations.