Anna J. SMITH, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
Barack OBAMA, in his official capacity as President of the United States of America; James R. Clapper, in his official capacity as Director of National Intelligence; Michael S. Rogers, in his official capacity as Director of the National Security Agency and Chief of the Central Security Service; Ashton Carter, in his official capacity as Secretary of Defense; Loretta E. Lynch, Attorney General; James B. Comey, in his official capacity as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Defendants-Appellees.
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Marc Rotenberg , Alan Butler , Julia Horwitz and Jeramie Scott , Electronic Privacy Information Center, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and Thirty-Three Technical Experts and Legal Scholars.
Charles S. Sims , Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, NY, for Amici Curiae Senator Ron Wyden, Senator Mark Udall and Senator Martin Heinrich.
Before: MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, M. MARGARET McKEOWN, and RICHARD C. TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
ORDER
Anna Smith challenges the collection of her metadata pursuant to § 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, Pub. L. No. 107-56, sec. 215, § 501, 115 Stat. 272, 287-88. That section expired on June 1, 2015, but was revived by the USA FREEDOM Act of 2015, Pub. L. No. 114-23, tit. I, 129 Stat. 268, 269-77 (2015)(codified at 50 U.S.C. § 1861). The USA FREEDOM Act prohibits any further bulk collection of tangible...
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