U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, September 2020: held that the NSA's phone metadata collection went beyond what Congress authorized and violated FISA. Whether evidence should be thrown out was a separate question.
We hold that the telephony metadata collection program exceeded the scope of Congress’s authorization in section 1861 and therefore violated that section of FISA.
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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, September 2020: held that the NSA's phone metadata collection went beyond what Congress authorized and violated FISA. Whether evidence should be thrown out was a separate question.