[lil'bit]

Some 40 lawsuits have been filed against the telecommunications companies by groups and individuals who say the Bush administration illegally monitored their phone calls or e-mails.

Does anyone know who any of these companies or groups are and if we can get their names?

[mojito]

If they filed a lawsuit it's a public record. You could go to findlaw and search under “FISA” and see what you could come up with.

[okie01]

Some 40 lawsuits have been filed against the telecommunications companies by groups and individuals...

In this you have an answer to the question of why Obama and the Democrats don't want the FISA law to move forward.

The trial lawyers sense a big payday...

It has nothing to do with national security or any "right of privacy".