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KLAYMAN v. OBAMA et al

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1:13-cv-00851

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District Of Columbia

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Civil Rights: Other

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Richard J. Leon

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  1. November 22, 2017

    New Law Moots Freedom Watch's NSA Lawsuits: Judge

    A D.C. federal judge dismissed two lawsuits filed in 2013 by the founder of conservative advocacy group Freedom Watch Inc. against the National Security Agency, ruling Tuesday that a 2015 law barring its indiscriminate bulk metadata collection programs mooted the lawsuits' request for injunctive relief.

  2. September 21, 2016

    Obama, Others Shake Individual Claims In Spy Suits

    President Barack Obama, former attorney general Eric Holder and other officials escaped claims brought against them as individuals by Freedom Watch founder Larry Klayman as part of challenges to the NSA's metadata collection programs, with a D.C. federal judge holding Wednesday they weren't properly served.

  3. March 09, 2016

    Freedom Watch Head Says Feds 'Playing Games' On Spy Suits

    Freedom Watch founder Larry Klayman accused federal officials Tuesday of jerking him around for years to delay his three D.C. federal court challenges of the National Security Agency's metadata collection programs, calling arguments that some officials weren't properly served legal papers "simply not credible."

  4. February 12, 2016

    Feds See No Reason For Cases Challenging Spy Program

    The Department of Justice asked a D.C. federal judge Friday to pare three cases from a challenge to the constitutionality of the National Security Agency's metadata collection programs, arguing a current appeal deals with most of the issues.

  5. November 19, 2015

    Paris Attacks Swayed DC Circ. In NSA Dragnet Suit, Atty Says

    A lawyer and his firm fighting to have their information erased from the National Security Agency's mass phone data collection program asked the D.C. Circuit on Wednesday for an emergency en banc rehearing of an order staying the case, suggesting the judges involved were swayed by the Paris attacks.

  6. November 17, 2015

    NSA Dodges Phone Dragnet Shutdown Before Deadline

    The U.S. government successfully parried a federal court order on Monday that would have required it to shut down its mass telephone record collection program just weeks before a law passed this summer requires the National Security Agency to replace the program with a more targeted regime.

  7. November 10, 2015

    DC Circ. Puts Hold On Order Blocking NSA Metadata Program

    The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday granted the federal government's emergency request allowing the National Security Agency to continue collecting bulk telephony metadata while it appeals a lower court's Monday ruling that the program is unconstitutional.

  8. November 09, 2015

    NSA Asks To Continue Data Program Pending Appeal

    Mere hours after a D.C. federal judge blocked the National Security Agency from continuing its systematic telephone metadata collection program Monday, the government asked him not to enforce the order until an appeals court weighs in, saying national security could be imperiled.

  9. November 09, 2015

    NSA Data Program Temporarily Blocked By DC Judge

    A D.C. federal judge on Monday ordered the National Security Agency to cease its bulk telephony metadata program — 20 days before the program was set to expire anyway under the USA Freedom Act — saying the practice likely violated the Fourth Amendment.

  10. October 30, 2015

    NSA Data Program Should Cease Before Expiration: Activist

    A lawyer fighting to stop the NSA's bulk data collection program before its November expiration urged a D.C. federal judge on Thursday to temporarily halt the program and ignore a contradicting Second Circuit ruling, arguing the decision does not change the fact that without action, the program will continue to violate the Constitution.