Klayman v. Obama

Klayman v. Obama
CourtUnited States District Court for the District of Columbia
DecidedDecember 16, 2013
DefendantsKlayman I: Verizon Communications, President Barack Obama, NSA director (General Keith B. Alexander), Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr., US District Judge Roger Vinson; Klayman II: Facebook, Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, YouTube, AOL, PalTalk, Skype, Sprint, AT&T, Apple and the same government defendants as in Klayman I
Holding
Warrantless telecommunications surveillance is not permitted under the Fourth Amendment.
Court membership
Judge sittingRichard J. Leon

Klayman v. Obama, 957 F.Supp.2d 1 (D.D.C., 2013), was a decision by the United States District Court for District of Columbia finding that the National Security Agency's (NSA) bulk phone metadata collection program was unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment.[1] The ruling was later overturned on jurisdictional grounds, leaving the constitutional implications of NSA surveillance unaddressed.[2]

  1. ^ Klayman v. Obama, 957 F. Supp. 2d 1 (D.C.D.C., 2013).
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