The Department of Justice asked a court to...
The Department of Justice asked a court to delay deadlines in lawsuits about surveillance documents. DOJ is struggling with lapsed funding due to the government shutdown. It requested a “a stay of this litigation, including pending deadlines related to the…
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re-review, processing, and production of documents that are set forth” in court orders as part of a suit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 2011 in U.S. District Court in Oakland. Privacy advocates have sought documents on the interpretation of Patriot Act Section 215, which authorizes the federal government’s bulk collection of phone metadata, but don’t oppose DOJ’s motion, the Tuesday filing said. DOJ filed a similar motion to stay, based on the shutdown and its limited funding, in a case with the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. The ACLU expressed no objection, the Tuesday filing said. This case involved a July lawsuit from the ACLU following the surveillance leaks from then-National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.