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z2007-09-07- Court Strikes Part Of Patriot Act
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last edited by BillSeitz on Aug 22, 2008 3:09 am

A U.S. (Judge [Victor Marrero] of the Southern District of New York) struck down a key provision of the as unconstitutional Thursday, marking the second time that a provision which allows anti-terrorism investigators to write their own subpoenas for phone and internet records and require the recipients to never speak of them violated the ... The order is being stayed for 90 days to give the government time to appeal the order or get Congress to rewrite the gag rules yet again.

Sept27 update: Judge [Ann Aiken] of the District of Oregon struck down chunks of it also.


 



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