February 24th, 2009
Judge questions law giving telecoms immunity
By Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle
A federal judge in San Francisco is raising questions about the constitutionality of a law designed to dismiss suits against telecommunications companies accused of cooperating with government wiretapping...
The point of the 1944 ruling, said the phone customers' lawyer, Cindy Cohn of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, was that "Congress is supposed to write the laws. Congress isn't supposed to abdicate the ability to write those laws to the president."
Related Issues: NSA Spying
Related Cases: Hepting v. AT&T, NSA Multi-District Litigation
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