(December 20, 2017, 1:00 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Although a District of Columbia federal judge applauded a group of plaintiffs’ efforts to champion constitutional rights allegedly violated by the National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) bulk metadata collection program, he nevertheless found it necessary to dismiss their lawsuits against the government for lack of jurisdiction in a Nov. 21 ruling, in light of the subsequent expiry of the USA Patriot Act, which changed the facts of the case (Larry Elliott Klayman, et al. v. National Security Agency, et al., Nos. 1:13-cv-00851 and 1:13-cv-00881, D. D.C., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 193267)....