The U.S. government appealed the Klayman v. Obama...
The U.S. government appealed the Klayman v. Obama decision that questioned the constitutionality of government bulk metadata phone surveillance, it said in a notice Friday. In that December decision of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge…
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Richard Leon called such surveillance “almost Orwellian” and said it likely violates the Fourth Amendment. Another federal court issued a contrary ruling in ACLU v. Clapper days later, one that upheld such surveillance and resulted in an appeal from the ACLU on Thursday. Leon had expected the government to appeal and issued a stay on his ruling with that expectation.