Legal Opinion
American Civil Liberties Union v. Clapper
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 29, 2015No. Docket No. 14-42-cvPublishedCited by 77 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GERARD E. LYNCH, Circuit Judge:
This opinion concerns the effect of the passage of the USA FREEDOM Act (“Freedom Act”) on ongoing litigation surrounding the legality of the government’s bulk telephone metadata collection program. We addressed the merits in an earlier opinion, ACLU v. Clapper, 785 F.3d 787 (2d Cir.2015). In that opinion we held that the bulk telephone metadata collection program was not authorized by provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act (“Patriot Act”). Subsequent to that decision, Congress passed the Freedom Act, which effectively put an end to the telephone metadata program and…
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