In June of 2013, Anna Smith filed a lawsuit to stop the National Security Agency from collecting “metadata” created by her cell phone calls. This metadata included the time of calls, the length of the calls, and to whom the calls were made. The lawsuit was...
“They can learn a lot about who they are talking to and what they are talking about. It is who has the information that matters here. Government is powerful. Information in Governments’ hands is powerful.” – Peter Smith Peter and Anna appear on...
In Smith v. Obama, Anna Smith, a neonatal intensive care nurse, filed suit against President Obama and others asserting that the dragnet collection of call records violated the Fourth Amendment. The U.S. District Court in Idaho dismissed the case. Though District...
In response to Anna Smith’s request for judicial notice that Verizon Wireless participates in the NSA’s dragnet collection of call records, the government says that a reference to Verizon Wireless in a document filed with the Foreign Intelligence...
Anna Smith filed a request for judicial notice (aka an RJN) with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The request asks the Court to look at the records obtained through a public records request that show that Verizon Wireless participated in the dragnet collection of...
In a hearing in Klayman v. Obama, Judge Leon made it clear he will only determine whether the government is collecting the phone records from Verizon Wireless. He will not revisit the constitutional issue. Judge Leon also urged the plaintiffs to move quickly. “The...
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