Administrative/Regulatory
Apr. 1, 2016
Surveillance Whack-a-mole: the quest for a 4th Amendment ruling on NSA surveillance
Last week the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a short order remanding one of the three main challenges to the NSA's Metadata Program. By Alan Butler
Civil rights litigation can, at times, feel like a long game of whack-a-mole. Successfully challenging an unconstitutional government program requires good timing and persistence because even small changes can send a case back to square one. That process is apparent in recent challenges to the National Security Agency's Metadata Program, which involved the ongoing collection of all call records from major U.S. telephone providers. C...
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