D.C. Circuit Stays Newly Reinstated Injunction Of NSA Data Collection Program

Mealey's (November 13, 2015, 12:01 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — One day after a District of Columbia federal judge preliminarily enjoined the National Security Agency from collecting any further data on certain plaintiffs in a putative class action challenging the constitutionality of the U.S. government’s metadata collection program, a District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Nov. 10 issued a per curiam order administratively staying the injunction so that it had “sufficient opportunity to consider the merits of” the government’s emergency motion to stay the injunction (Larry Elliott Klayman, et al. v. Barack Obama, et al., No. 15-5307, D.C. Cir.)....