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Freedom of the Press Foundation v. U.S. Department of Justice

4:15-cv-03503 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 30, 2015

Closed Date: March 13, 2017

On July 30, 2015, the Freedom of the Press Foundation (a non-profit organization focusing on First Amendment press rights) sued the U.S. Department of Justice in the Northern District of California seeking injunctive relief under the Freedom of Information Act. Plaintiff sought the expedited processing and release of records from the FBI concerning the procedures by which the Bureau issues National Security Letters ("NSLs") and exigent letters to investigate members of the press. Plaintiff beli…
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Shubert v. Obama

4:07-cv-00693 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 17, 2006

Case Ongoing

On May 17, 2006, American citizens who use the telephone and internet filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued the President of the United States of America, the National Security Agency and the Attorney General under the Declaratory Judgment Act and bivens. Represented by private counsel, they sought declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief, claiming that…
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Baby Doe v. Piehota

1:16-cv-00373 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: April 5, 2016

Case Ongoing

On April 5, 2016, nineteen American Muslim individuals listed in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's ("FBI") Terrorist Screening Database filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS"), the FBI, the Transportation Security Administration ("TSA"), and the Terrorist Screening Center ("TSC"). Represented by the Council on American-Islamic Relations and private counsel, the plaintiffs brought this…
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ACLU v. Central Intelligence Agency

1:10-cv-00436 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 3, 2010

Case Ongoing

On January 3, 2010, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the government seeking disclosure of documents related to the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) use of predator drones for the purpose of targeted killings of individuals, including a United States citizen. The Departments of Defense, Justice, and State provided some records but the CIA denied the request in a "Glomar" response, which declines either to confirm or deny the existence of …
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FISA Docket PR-TT ---- (Bates, J.) (July 2010)

PR-TT [Redacted] | Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

Filed Date: 2010

Closed Date: 2010

For the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse collection of FISA matters, see our special collection.On November 18, 2013, the Director of National Intelligence authorized the declassification and public release of numerous orders approving the National Security Agency's ("NSA") so-called "Bulk Internet Metadata Program" under Section 402 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ("FISA"), commonly referred to as the Pen Register and Trap and Trace (PR/TT) provision, or Section 214 o…

Government’s Second Letter to Judge Bates to Confirm Understanding of Issues Relating to the FISC’s Authorization to Collect Metadata (August 2010)

July 1, 2010

Government’s Application for Use of Pen Register/Trap and Trace Devices for Foreign Intelligence Purposes

July 1, 2010

NSA IG Memo Announcing its Audit of NSA’s Controls to Comply with the FISA Court’s Order Regarding Pen Register/Trap and Trace Devices (Winter 2011)

FISA Docket PR-TT ---- (Judge Unknown) (Winter 2011)

Dec. 1, 2011

NSA IG Memo Suspending its Audit of NSA after the NSA’s PRTT Metadata Program Expired (Winter 2011)

FISA Docket PR-TT ---- (Judge Unknown) (Winter 2011)

Dec. 1, 2011

Third Letter in Response to FISC Questions Concerning NSA Bulk Metadata Collection Using Pen Register/Trap and Trace Devices

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Hedges v. Obama

1:12-cv-00331 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 13, 2012

Closed Date: 2014

This case was filed by a group of writers and activists on January 13, 2012, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. They asked the Court to hold one unconstitutional one provision of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, Pub. L. 112-81, 125 Stat. 1298 (the NDAA). The NDAA had been enacted two weeks before; plaintiffs charged that § 1021 of the NDAA violates their free speech and associational rights, under the Constitution's First Amendment, a…
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In Re Electronic Surveillance and Physical Search of International Terrorist Groups, Their Agents, and Related Targets [Raw Take Order Docket 02-431]

02-00431 | Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

Filed Date: 2002

This is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) case that led to what NSA personnel have labeled the "Raw Take" order, issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) on July 22, 2002. Prior to this order, with only narrow exceptions, NSA was authorized to share information gathered under FISA only after "minimization," which included deleting non-foreign-intelligence information and the names of most U.S. persons. This order authorized sharing of raw--unminimized--infor…

Standard Minimization Procedures for Electronic Surveillance Conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA) (Exhibit B to 2 May 2002 Motion)

July 1, 1997

Motion for Amended Orders Permitting Modified Minimization Procedures

In Re Electronic Surveillance and Physical Search of International Terrorist Groups, Their Agents, and Related Targets

May 10, 2002

CIA Minimization Procedures for Information from FISA Electronic Surveillance and Physical Search Conducted by the FBI (Exhibit A to May 10 2002 Motion)

In Re Electronic Surveillance and Physical Search of International Terrorist Groups, Their Agents, and Related Targets

May 10, 2002

Order

In Re Electronic Surveillance and Physical Search of International Terrorist Groups, Their Agents, and Related Targets

May 10, 2002

Order

July 22, 2002

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Beydoun v. Sessions

5:14-cv-13812 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Oct. 3, 2014

Closed Date: Dec. 6, 2017

In this case, plaintiff alleged that the additional security delays he experienced when traveling by air constituted a violation of his Constitutional right to travel. On October 3, 2014, a Michigan resident filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against the FBI and its Terrorist Screening Center (TSC). The plaintiff brought this suit on behalf of himself and "all those who are believed to be included on the No[-]Fly and Terrorist Watch L…
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Abdi v. Wray

2:17-cv-00622 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: June 17, 2017

Closed Date: Jan. 6, 2020

This 2017 lawsuit challenged the FBI’s placement of a U.S. citizen on a terrorist watchlist; it was dismissed in 2019.The Terrorism Screening DataBase, also known as the “terrorist watchlist,” is maintained by the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC), a division of the National Security Branch of the FBI. The watchlist includes sub-lists--a No Fly List and a Selectee List. People on the No Fly List are not allowed to fly on American airplanes or flights into the US. People included on the Selectee …
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El Ali v. Barr (Jardaneh v. Barr)

8:18-cv-02415 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2018

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the placement of Muslims on federal terrorist watchlists. The United States government employs various terrorist watchlists to track terror suspects. These watchlists include the FBI's Terrorism Screening Database (TSDB) and the Transportation Security Agency's Quiet Skies program. Twenty Muslims filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland on August 8, 2018. Defendants included a wide variety of federal agency officials, including the U.S. Department of…