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4
March
2022

Fazaga ruling leaves surveillance accountability questions unresolved

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📅 4 March 2022 📍 United States

The Supreme Court held that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act provision at issue did not displace the state-secrets privilege and returned FBI v. Fazaga to the lower courts. The ACLU criticized the ruling while emphasizing that litigation could continue. The decision did not resolve the merits of Muslim plaintiffs’ discrimination claims or determine that dismissal was required.

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Patrick Toomey; Peter Bibring

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US Supreme Court; American Civil Liberties Union