Government Seeks Dismissal Of Surveillance Suits For Standing, Sovereign Immunity

Mealey's (November 22, 2016, 12:48 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The governmental defendants in two lawsuits alleging constitutional violations in the National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) surveillance program filed a brief in District of Columbia federal court Nov. 17, seeking dismissal of the suits for lack of standing under Article III of the U.S. Constitution and under the doctrine of sovereign immunity (Larry Elliott Klayman, et al. v. Barack Hussein Obama, et al., Nos. 1:13-cv-00851 and 1:13-cv-00881, D. D.C.)....