Evidence
Judge Tosses Suit Claiming Government Wiretapped Lawyers’ Conversations
Posted Jul 3, 2008, 08:49 am CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss
A federal judge in San Francisco has dismissed a lawsuit that claimed the government illegally wiretapped conversations between lawyers and a client, a now-defunct charity suspected of terrorism.
The lawsuit relied on a classified call log the government turned over by mistake to the client, the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation. U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker barred the foundation from using the document and dismissed the suit, according to the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. He gave the foundation 30 days to file a new lawsuit using publicly available information.
Although Walker tossed the case, charity lawyers were buoyed by his ruling apparently rejecting the Bush administration's authority to order… Continue reading...
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