ACLU v. Clapper: Second Circuit Vacates Lower Court Opinion On NSA Bulk Collecting of Metadata

Here is a link to the Second Circuit opinion on ACLU v. Clapper, the case concerning the National Security Agency’s collection of domestic phone records in bulk. The court said in part that Section 215 of the Patriot Act “cannot bear the weight the government asks us to assign to it, and that it does not authorize the telephone metadata program.”

More here from the New York Times, here from Bloomberg News, webpage here on the case from the ACLU.