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American Civil Liberties Union v. Clapper
American federal court case / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
American Civil Liberties Union v. Clapper, 785 F.3d 787 (2nd Cir., 2015), was a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and its affiliate, the New York Civil Liberties Union, against the United States federal government as represented by then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. The ACLU challenged the legality and constitutionality of the National Security Agency's (NSA) bulk phone metadata collection program.[1]
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Court | United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit |
Full case name | American Civil Liberties Union v. Clapper |
Argued | September 2, 2014 |
Decided | May 7, 2015 |
Citation | 785 F.3d 787 |
Holding | |
Warrantless telecommunications surveillance is not permitted under the USA Patriot Act (later rectified by the USA Freedom Act). | |
Court membership | |
Judges sitting | Gerard E. Lynch, Robert D. Sack and Vernon S. Broderick |
Case opinions | |
Majority | Gerard E. Lynch |
Laws applied | |
USA Patriot Act, USA Freedom Act, Fourth Amendment |
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The challenge was initially rejected in District Court, but that ruling was overturned at the Circuit Court level.[2] However, this particular ruling later became moot when the U.S. Congress clarified NSA surveillance procedures in the USA Freedom Act of 2015.[3]