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… Comprehensive (103 page) report recounts the history of FISA and subsequent amendment of the statute via the 2001 USA PATRIOT Act, the 2002 Homeland Security Act, the 2002 Intelligence Authorization Act, the Intelligence …

… Addresses recently-released public information about NSA collection programs and progress of related litigation, as well as statutory authorities regarding access by the government, for either foreign intelligence or law …

… Discusses alterations made to FISA by the PAA of 2007 and their potential impact on and parallels to existing law, as well as recent legislative developments. … ELIZABETH B. BAZAN, CONG. RES. SERV., RL34143, P.L. 110-55, …

… Agent defendants are “entitled to qualified immunity with respect to this category of surveillance.” 916 F.3d at 1220. Agent defendants not entitled to qualified immunity “for recordings made by devices planted by FBI …

… Denying defendant’s “motion to compel disclosure of any ongoing surveillance pursuant to Title III or FISA is denied.” 2002 WL 1836755, at *7. … United States v. Abdel Sattar, No. 02 Cr. 395(JGK), 2002 WL 1836755 (S.D.N.Y. …

… Denying “[a]ll of the defendant’s motions to suppress the fruits of the FISA evidence” 2003 WL 22137012 at *22. Finding that “the FISA surveillance was lawfully authorized and executed.” Id. … United States v. Abdel …

… Denying defendant’s motion for evidentiary hearing “on both ‘government noncompliance with discovery obligations, principally concerning electronic surveillance evidence,’ and the ‘admissibility of electronic surveillance …

… Holding that that the Government may have violated the Fourth Amendment and did violate FISA when it collected the telephony metadata of millions of Americans, including at least one of the defendants convicted of sending …

… The Court amended the opinion reported at 916 F.3d 1202, unanimously voting to deny a petition for rehearing. The Court also voted on an en banc rehearing, but the matter failed to receive a majority of the votes by …