Publication Date: 2015-05-11
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Judge: Before: Sack and Lynch, C.JJ., and Broderick, D.J.**
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for defendant: For Plaintiffs-Appellants: Jameel Jaffer, Patrick Toomey, Brett Max Kaufman, Catherine Crump, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY; Christopher T. Dunn, Arthur N. Eisenburg, New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, on the brief, Alexander Abdo, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, For Defendants-Appellees: Douglas N. Letter, H. Thomas Byron III, Henry C. Whitaker, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC; Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY; David S. Jones, John D. Clopper, Emily E. Daughtry, Assistant United States Attorneys, New York, NY, on the brief, Stuart F. Delery, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. For Amici Curiae Former Members of the Church Committee and Law Professors in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellants: Laura K. Donohue, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC, Erwin Chemerinsky, University of California, Irvine School of Law, Irvine, CA. For Amici Curiae Senator Ron Wyden, Senator Mark Udall, and Senator Martin Heinrich in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellants: Charles S. Sims, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, NY. For Amici Curiae Experts in Computer and Data Science in Support of Appellants and Reversal: Cindy Cohn, Mark Rumold, Andrew Crocker, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, CA. For Amicus Curiae The Rutherford Institute in Support of Appellants and Reversal: John W. Whitehead, Douglas R. McKusick, The Rutherford Institute, Charlottesville, Virginia, Daniel L. Ackman, Law Office of Daniel Ackman, New York, NY. For Amicus Curiae PEN American Center, Inc., in Support of Appellants: Edward J. Davis, Linda Steinman, Lacy H. Koonce, III, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, New York, NY. For Amicus Curiae National Rifle Association of America, Inc., in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellants and Supporting Reversal: John Frazer, Law Office of John Frazer, PLLC, Fairfax, VA. For Amicus Curiae Association of the Bar of the City of New York Supporting Plaintiffs-Appellants' Brief: Jonathan Hafetz, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Gary D. Sesser, Stephen L. Kass, Michael Shapiro, Laura A. Zaccone, Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP, New York, NY.
Case Number: 14-42-cv
Cite as: American Civil Liberties Union v. Clapper, 14-42-cv, NYLJ 1202725858041, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided May 7, 2015) FULL CAS