Fergie's Tech Blog

NSA Suits To Be Consolidated?

Ryan Singel writes on 27B Stroke 6:

A federal judicial panel on multijurisdictionall lawsuits heard arguments today on whether to consolidate the myriad lawsuits filed against the government and against the country's largest telecoms in the wake of revelations about widespread warrantless surveillance of Americans.

The Department of Justice wants all the suits consolidated and brought to Washington, D.C., while Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyer Cindy Cohn urged the panel to consolidate the class-action cases to Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco, who has already read classified briefs on the program and rebuffed the government's attempt to dismiss the EFF's suit against AT&T on the grounds of national security, according to Reuters's Andrew Stern.

posted by Fergie @ 7/28/2006 06:04:00 PM