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Courts Render Disparate Opinions on NSA Surveillance

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Deciding a lawsuit brought by the ACLU, a federal judge in New York last week ruled that the National Security Administration’s mass collection of telephone data is a necessary response to terrorism and does not violate the U.S. Constitution. So reports the Los Angeles Times.

The ruling contrasts sharply with a decision rendered by a Washington, D.C. federal judge earlier this month holding that the NSA’s telephone data collection violates the Fourth Amendment’s protection from unreasonable searches. Both cases will likely be appealed. Whichever side loses in the appeals courts likely will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to decide the issue.

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