Driver v. Helms

OPINION

PETTINE, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs are five American citizens who have brought this action on behalf of themselves and all those similarly situated against thirty present and former officials. The amended complaint alleges that the defendants “engaged in an extended conspiracy to conduct an illegal and unconstitutional program surreptitiously to intercept, open, read and photograph tens of thousands of sealed first-class letters deposited in the United States mails by plaintiffs and members of their class”, thereby violating plaintiffs’ rights under the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Ninth…