Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Supreme Court rules aid workers lack standing to challenge wiretapping law

[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] 5-4 Tuesday in Clapper v. Amnesty International [JURIST report] that a coalition of attorneys, journalists and rights organizations do not have Article III [Cornell LII backgrounder] standing to contest Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) [50 USC § 1881(a) text]. The coalition was represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] and argued that FISA jeopardizes their ability to keep confidential communications with clients suspected...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/02/supreme-court-rules-aid-workers-lack-standing-to-challenge-wiretapping-law.php

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