Legal Opinion
Wikimedia Foundation v. National Security Agency
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided May 23, 2017No. 15-2560PublishedCited by 527 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIAZ, Circuit Judge:
The Wikimedia Foundation and eight other organizations appeal the dismissal of their complaint challenging Upstream surveillance, an electronic surveillance program operated by the National Security Agency (the “NSA”). The district court, relying on the discussion of speculative injury from Clapper v. Amnesty International USA, 568 U.S. 398, 133 S.Ct. 1138, 185 L.Ed.2d 264 (2013), held that the allegations in the complaint were too speculative to establish Article III standing. We conclude that Clapper's, analysis of speculative injury does not control this case, since the…
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