April 03, 2014
The U.S. government on Wednesday issued a seven-page response to the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, saying it didn't tell the court about an email asking that it preserve call data the government gathered in a class action accusing it of spying, because it didn't know the data was relevant to the suit.
March 19, 2014
A California federal judge said Wednesday that he's inclined to require the National Security Agency to preserve data that could serve as evidence in a lawsuit by civil liberties groups and a separate class action by AT&T Inc. subscribers alleging its collection of Americans' phone records violated constitutional protections.
March 10, 2014
A California federal judge on Monday afternoon ordered the National Security Agency to halt the destruction of five years' worth of phone records it had gathered, siding at least temporarily with a privacy group claiming the records are needed to prove rights violations against Americans.
November 20, 2013
Three Democratic U.S. senators, in an amicus brief supporting a lawsuit in California court that targets the National Security Agency's vast telephone surveillance program, said Monday the program hasn't produced any valuable intelligence and should be scrapped.
October 10, 2013
A California federal judge on Wednesday rejected the government's shutdown-related request to temporarily halt a suit brought by an unlikely coalition of Unitarians, gun rights groups and others challenging the National Security Agency 's vast telephone surveillance program.