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22 Jun 2013, 7:02 am by Benjamin Wittes
Below the fold, we’ve included a copy of the introduction (with internal links removed), to give you a sense of the book’s contents and organization. [read post]
5 Jun 2013, 8:00 pm by Steve Vladeck
Amnesty International decision, which, in rejecting standing to challenge (admittedly different) FISA-related authorities, dismissed the plaintiffs’ allegations that their communications might be intercepted as purely “speculative. [read post]
21 May 2013, 7:49 am by Sarah Erickson-Muschko
Amnesty International, in which the Court held that plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge an international wiretapping statute, could have “on efforts by advocacy groups to file lawsuits under environmental laws. [read post]
28 Apr 2013, 1:32 pm by Omar Ha-Redeye
  Alex Neve, Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada, described the selection process during Khadr's trial as follows: What stays with me from these two days is the intensity of the prosecution’s determination to exclude anyone who had an informed view about the well-documented human rights concerns associated with Guantánamo Bay and other aspects of the USA’s post-September 11th counter-terrorism policies. [read post]
6 Apr 2013, 10:35 am by Alan Rozenshtein
Amnesty International USA denying standing to plaintiffs challenging the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program on the ongoing litigation in Hedges v. [read post]
11 Mar 2013, 4:00 am by Administrator
The CourtStanding to Challenge US Wiretapping Law Denied: Clapper, Director of National Intelligence et al v Amnesty International USA et al On 26 February 2013, the United States Supreme Court (USSC) ((568 US) (2013)) upheld the federal law that enables the government to perform surveillance on Americans’ phone and email communications with people outside the United States. [read post]
6 Mar 2013, 8:33 am by Jeff Gamso
Amnesty International USA holding that regardless of whether the federal program of wiretapping under Section 1888(a) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is constitutional, nobody can go to court to challenge it. [read post]
1 Mar 2013, 12:36 pm by Mali Friedman
Amnesty International USA et al., the United States Supreme Court rejected two theories of Article III standing presented by a group of attorneys, human rights, labor, legal, and media organizations who sought a declaration that surveillance under section 1881a of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”) is unconstitutional as well as an injunction against section 1881a-authorized surveillance. [read post]
1 Mar 2013, 6:15 am by Rachel Sachs
Amnesty International USA, holding that attorneys and human rights and media organizations who believe that they are surveillance targets under a global wiretapping law lack Article III standing to challenge the Act. [read post]
28 Feb 2013, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Amnesty International USA, involved a constitutional challenge to a law passed by Congress in 2008 that permits the federal government to undertake additional surveillance and information gathering with respect to persons outside the United States. [read post]
17 Jan 2013, 8:05 am by Marty Lederman
On March 26 and 27, the Court will hear oral argument in the same-sex marriage cases, Hollingsworth v. [read post]
7 Jan 2013, 6:21 am by Marissa Miller
Amnesty International USA, which focuses on whether Amnesty International has Article III standing to challenge this law. [read post]
30 Dec 2012, 9:13 pm by John Steele
The outside ownership of law firms took a big step forward in the UK but stalled in the USA. [read post]
30 Oct 2012, 8:20 am by Kiran Bhat
Amnesty International USA, the Justices considered whether Amnesty International and a group of lawyers, journalists, and human rights activists have standing to challenge the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a federal law that provides for large-scale electronic surveillance of international phone calls and emails. [read post]