IN RE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY TELECOMMUNICATIONS RECORDS LITIGATION

MDL Docket No. 06-1791 VRW. Case No. C 07-0109 VRW.

700 F.Supp.2d 1182 (2010)

In re NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY TELECOMMUNICATIONS RECORDS LITIGATION. This order pertains to: Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, Inc, an Oregon Nonprofit Corporation; Wendell Belew, a United States Citizen and Attorney at Law; Asim Ghafoor, a Unites States Citizen and Attorney at Law, Plaintiffs, v. Barack H. Obama, President of the United States; National Security Agency and Keith B. Alexander, its Director; Office of Foreign Assets Control, an office of the United States Treasury, and Adam J. Szubin, its Director; Federal Bureau of Investigation and Robert S. Mueller III, its Director, in his official and personal capacities, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

March 31, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon B. Eisenberg, Eisenberg & Hancock, Oakland, CA, Lisa Robin Jaskol, Los Angeles, CA, Thomas Howard Nelson, Welches, OR, Zaha S. Hassan, Law Offices of Zaha Hassan, Lake Oswego, OR, Jessica Ashlee Albies, Steenson Schumann Tewksbury Creighton & Rose PC, Steven Goldberg, Portland, OR, for Plaintiff.

Anthony Joseph Coppolino, Alexander Kenneth Haas, Andrea Marie Gacki, Marcia Berman, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Defendants.

Cindy Ann Cohn, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Jennifer Lloyd Kelly, Fenwick & West LLP, San Francisco, CA, John Andrew Rogovin, Wiimer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP, Washington, DC, for Interested Party.


MEMORANDUM OF DECISION AND ORDER

VAUGHN R. WALKER, Chief Judge.

SUMMARY OF DECISION

Plaintiffs seek an order finding defendants civilly liable to them under section 1810 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ("FISA"), 50 USC §§ 1801-71, for eavesdropping on their telephone conversations without a FISA warrant. In the course of lengthy proceedings in this court and the court of appeals, described more fully in the decision...

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