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3 Apr 2014, 4:18 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Pursuant to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978 the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) reviews government applications to conduct electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review (FISA Court of Review) reviews decisions of the FISC. [read post]
25 May 2021, 11:53 am by CrimProf BlogEditor
Laura Donohue (Georgetown University Law Center) has posted The Evolution and Jurisprudence of The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review (Harvard National Security Journal, Vol. 12, Forthcoming) on SSRN. [read post]
29 Nov 2021, 9:00 pm
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court’s ex parte, in camera proceedings are in tension with the Article III values of transparency and adversarialism. [read post]
26 Apr 2018, 10:17 am by Matthew Kahn
Courts released the following report on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court’s activities during 2017. [read post]
17 Dec 2019, 5:37 pm by Kent Scheidegger
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court today issued this order regarding the revelations on the FBI's conduct in the Carter Page matter.The FBI's handling of the Carter Page applications, as portrayed in the OIG report, was antithetical to the heightened duty of candor described above. [read post]
10 Jun 2013, 3:18 am by Benjamin Wittes
It is an internal government computer system used to facilitate the government’s statutorily authorized collection of foreign intelligence information from electronic communication service providers under court supervision, as authorized by Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) (50 U.S.C. [read post]
The post US Supreme Court rules Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act does not displace state secrets privilege appeared first on JURIST - News. [read post]
10 Jan 2016, 6:09 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Mondale, Walter F. and Stein, Robert A. and Fisher, Caitlinrose, No Longer a Neutral Magistrate: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in the Wake of the War on Terror (January 1, 2016). [read post]
25 Feb 2016, 5:04 am by David Kris
Trends and Predictions in Foreign Intelligence Surveillanced [read post]
19 Feb 2021, 9:00 pm
Drawing on recent litigation seeking access to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinions, this Essay proposes anchoring the First Amendment right of access not just in the Speech, Press, and Assembly Clauses, but also the Petition Clause. [read post]
15 Apr 2016, 7:25 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Via FAS – Surveillance of Foreigners Outside the United States Under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Edward C. [read post]
27 May 2020, 1:49 pm by Russell A. Miller
The amended law explicitly authorized strategic foreign-foreigner telecommunications surveillance. [read post]
14 Oct 2021, 11:08 am by John Elwood
The FISC dismissed the motion, as did the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, also created in 1978. [read post]
15 Jan 2020, 10:24 am by Quinta Jurecic
David Kris, whom the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court appointed as amicus curiae to review the FBI's filing before the court regarding FBI and Justice Department practices in filing FISA warrants, has filed a letter brief with the court in response to the FBI's submission. [read post]
10 Feb 2018, 5:02 am by Stewart Baker
Over the last week, there's been a great deal of discussion on Lawfare regarding the role that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court might play in clearing up controversy over the Nunes memo. [read post]
11 Jan 2019, 6:00 am by Peter Swire, Jesse Woo, Deven Desai
These reasons have not been assessed either by the Court of Justice for the European Union nor by the European Court of Human Rights, which in 2018 addressed numerous other foreign intelligence surveillance issues in both Big Brother Watch v. [read post]
25 May 2023, 5:51 am by Asha Rangappa
Specifically, FISA established a secret court – the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) – comprised of 11 (originally 7) Article III judges selected by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, who sit in rotation. [read post]
13 Sep 2013, 12:31 pm by J. Michael Goodson Law Library
Federal law provides that "The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court shall have jurisdiction to hear applications for and grant orders approving a physical search for the purpose of obtaining foreign intelligence information anywhere within the United States" (50 U.S.C. [read post]
7 Jul 2013, 5:12 am by Timothy P. Flynn
 Even as lawyers, we here at the Law Blogger had never heard of such a stealth tribunal until Edward Snowden blew the whistle on one of its rulings [i.e. the FISA Court's "classified" order to turn over all of Verizon's phone tracing data to the NSA].Actually, the FISA Court has been around since the 1978 passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. [read post]
28 Mar 2023, 8:55 am by Lawrence Solum
Like their geographic sistren, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review (FISCR), firmly situated within Article III, routinely rule on critical first, fourth, and fifth amendment questions, engage in complex statutory analysis, and adjudicate matters involving government malfeasance—all matters at the heart of the rule of law. [read post]