Replies

Note: The following post is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1861778/posts

U.S. appeals court orders dismissal of domestic spying suit
International Herald Tribune ^ | July 6, 2007 | The Associated Press

Posted on 07/06/2007 9:05:11 AM PDT by xcamel

CINCINNATI: A U.S. appeals court on Friday ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging President George W. Bush’s domestic spying program, saying the plaintiffs had no standing to sue.

The 2-1 ruling by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel was not on the legality of the surveillance program, but it vacated a 2006 order by a lower court in Detroit. That court had found the post-911 warrantless surveillance aimed at uncovering terrorist activity to be unconstitutional, violating rights to privacy and free speech and the separation of powers.

The American Civil Liberties Union led the lawsuit on behalf of other groups including lawyers, journalists and scholars it says have been handicapped in doing their jobs by the government monitoring.

However, Judge Julia Smith Gibbons, one of the appeals court’s Republican appointees, said the plaintiffs failed to show they were subject to the surveillance and therefore do not have standing for their claims.

(Excerpt) Read more at iht.com ...