Amnesty v. Blair (Challenging the FISA Amendments Act of 2008)
S.D.N.Y., Index No. 08 Civ. 6259 (direct)
This case challenges the constitutionality of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 – a law that gives the government virtually unchecked authority to intercept Americans’ international e-mails and telephone calls.
The NYCLU and ACLU filed the lawsuit on behalf of a broad coalition of attorneys and human rights, labor, legal and media organizations whose ability to perform their work – which relies on confidential communications – are compromised by the new law. Most of the clients are in New York.