Legal Opinion
In Re NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY TELECOMMUNICATIONS RECORDS LITIGATION
District Court, N.D. California
Decided July 24, 2007No. MDL Docket 06-1791 VRWPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
VAUGHN R. WALKER, United States District Chief Judge.
The government seeks to enjoin state officials in Missouri, Maine, New Jersey, Connecticut and Vermont from investigating various telecommunication carriers concerning their alleged disclosure of customer telephone records to the National Security Agency (NSA) based on the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution, the foreign affairs power of the federal government and the state secrets privilege.
Before these cases were transferred to this court by the Judicial Panel on Multi-district Litigation (JPML) on February 15, 2007,…
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