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Judge Richard Leon holds that the “[b]ulk telephony metadata collection and analysis almost certainly does violate a reasonable expectation of privacy," which, in turn, likely results in a violation of the Fourth Amendment. The court orders the NSA to purge the plaintiff's data from its system, and prohibits the NSA from collecting further phone records from the plaintiffs, but stays the order pending appeal.

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Monday, December 16, 2013 (All day)
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