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U.S. Government to Ask Courts to Toss Phone Suits

A Bloomberg News article by Andrew Harris, via The Washington Post, reports that:

The government will seek dismissal of 20 lawsuits accusing the biggest telecommunications companies of providing customer call data to the National Security Agency, claiming that "military and state secrets" might be divulged were the lawsuits to proceed.

The Justice Department said it will not ask for the dismissal until all the lawsuits are consolidated before a single judge, according to papers filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, where a complaint is pending against AT&T Inc.

posted by Fergie @ 6/08/2006 07:10:00 AM