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Supreme Court rules aid workers lack standing to challenge wiretapping law
February 27, 2013 by Julia Zebley
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday in Clapper v. Amnesty International that a coalition of attorneys, journalists and rights organizations do not have Article III standing to contest Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The coalition was represented by the American.... [more]
US Senate reauthorizes FISA surveillance law
December 30, 2012 by Addison Morris
The US Senate passed the Reauthorization Act of 2012 on Friday in a 73-23 vote to extend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act of 2008 (FISA) for five years. FISA grants the National Security Agency (NSA) the authority to conduct surveillance of Americans? phone calls and emails....... [more]
US House reauthorizes FISA surveillance law
September 13, 2012 by Brandon Gatto
The US House of Representatives on Wedneday voted to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act of 2008 (FISA), a highly contested law designed as a national security protection against terrorism and other foreign threats. The law's Reauthorization Act of 2012 renews 2008.... [more]
Multi-agency report questioned presidential warrantless wiretapping program [this day at law]
July 10, 2012 by Garrett Eisenhour
On July 10, 2009, an unclassified report released by five government agencies found that the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program relied on flawed legal analysis at its inception. In June 2009, a federal judge had upheld provisions of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 giving.... [more]
Objecting to Secret Evidence Under FISA [op-ed]
February 24, 2012 by David Mulock
JURIST Guest Columnist Tung Yin of the Lewis & Clark Law School says the standard of review of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant applications too heavily favors the government by creating an evidentiary burden nearly impossible for defendants to overcome...Earlier this month, in US.... [more]
FISA and the Battle Between National Security and Privacy [op-ed]
February 17, 2012 by David Mulock
JURIST Guest Columnist Jimmy Gurulé of the University of Notre Dame Law School says that Congress may have chosen to protect national security interests over the rights of criminal defendants in allowing a lower standard of constitutional protections under FISA...Defendant Mohanad Shareef Hamma....... [more]
US House voted to extend surveillance law [this day at law]
January 29, 2012 by Clay Flaherty
On January 29, 2008, the US House of Representatives voted to extend the Protect America Act of 2007 for an additional two weeks past its original February 1, 2008 expiration date. The extension was a compromise to give the US Senate time to craft a provision granting civil immunity to.... [more]
US appeals court upholds telecom company immunity law
December 31, 2011 by Jaimie Cremeans
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday unanimously ruled that a law granting immunity from civil suits for telecommunications companies that assist government intelligence agencies is constitutional. The Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act of 2008 (FISA) provides in Section.... [more]
Federal appeals court ruled against Islamic charity in NSA wiretapping lawsuit [this day at law]
November 16, 2011 by Meagan McElroy
On November 16, 2007, The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation could not use a secret call log from the US Treasury Department as evidence that the Muslim charity was the subject of an illegal wiretap because the document qualified as a "state secret.".... [more]
Federal judge ruled Patriot Act provisions unconstitutional [this day at law]
September 26, 2011 by Clay Flaherty
On September 26, 2007, the US District Court for the District of Oregon ruled that provisions of the USA Patriot Act which amended the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) were unconstitutional. The suit was originally brought by Oregon lawyer Brandon Mayfield, following his arrest and.... [more]
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