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… Foreign Intelligence Law Collection – Searching Assistance The Foreign Intelligence Law Collection (FILC) is a community housed within Digital Georgetown. On the FILC community homepage, the search box is used to search …

… Finding it unnecessary to appoint an amicus curiae as the question before the court is a matter of statutory interpretation for which “only a single reasonable or rational outcome” exists; and determining that the USA …

… Ordering declassification of a redacted version of the Feb. 19, 2013 FISC opinion in No. BR-25 and finding that the second redaction proposal passes muster. … Opinion and Order Directing Declassification of Redacted …

… Ruling on ACLU motion to release FISC opinions: motion denied with respect to records that are part of ongoing FOIA litigation; government ordered to conduct declassification review of other opinions. … Opinion and Order, …

… Order granting the government’s motion for stay of further proceedings, ordering a declassification review of an opinion evaluating Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, and ordering the government to submit a proposed …

… Order directing the government to submit a detailed explanation of its conclusion that a FISC opinion on Section 215 of the Patriot Act is classified in full and cannot be made public, even in redacted form. … Order, In re …

… Order amending the briefing schedule and extending the deadline for the government to respond to Google’s Motion, and for Google to reply. … Order, In re Motion for Declaratory Judgment of a First Amendment Right to …

… Opinion and order granting Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic’s Motion for Reconsideration of dismissal for lack of Article III standing, which the government did not oppose, and reinstating MFIAC as a party to …

… Rejecting defendant’s argument that “evidence gathered under FISA cannot be used in domestic criminal investigations or prosecutions.” 477 F.3d at 897. Because “FISA requires each intercept to be authorized by a warrant,” …

… Denying defendant’s motion for disclosure of FISA materials. 521 F. Supp. 2d at 130. Minimization procedures required by FISA do not apply to defendants who are not “unconsenting United States persons” and thus do not …

… Donohue, Professor of Law at Georgetown Law, analyzes the Court’s holding and the associated dissents in Carpenter. The Article draws attention to the myriad questions raised by the CSLI / third party exception, advocating …

… Donohue notes that Fourth Amendment doctrines created in the 1970s and 1980s no longer reflect how the world works. The formal legal distinctions on which they rely—(a) private versus public space, (b) personal information …