Misc. 15-01 MOTION TO ALLOW FILING OF NOTICE OF RELATED DOCKET (FISC 2015)
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IN THE UNITED STATES FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE COURT 1015 JUN 12 P 5: 07 IN RE MOTION IN OPPOSITION TO GOVERNMENT'S IMMINENT OR RECENTLY-MADE REQUEST TO RESUME BULK DAT A COLLECTION UNDER PATRIOT ACT§ 215 ) ) ) ) ) FISC Case No.: 15 - 01 Misc. MOTION TO ALLOW FILING OF NOTICE OF RELATED DOCKET The Center for National Security Studies, arnicus in Docket Number 14-01 Misc., respectfully requests that the Court allow filing of the attached Notice bringing to the Court's attention the relation between that docket and the current one. PAU M. SMITH JENNER & BLOCK LLP 1099 New York Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20001 (202) 639-6000 Counsel for Center for National Security Studies • IN THE UNITED STATES FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE COURT IN RE MOTION IN OPPOSITION TO GOVERNMENT'S IMMINENT OR RECENTLY-MADE REQUEST TO RESUME BULK DATA COLLECTION UNDER PATRIOT ACT§ 215 ) ) ) ) ) FISC Case No.: 15 -01 Misc. NOTICE OF RELATED DOCKET This is to bring to the Court's attention the relatedness of two of the Court's miscellaneous dockets: Nos. 14-01 and 15-01. In No. 14-01, the Center for National Security Studies filed on April 3, 2014, with prior leave of this Court, a Brief of Amicus Curiae on the Lack of Statutory Bulk Telephony for this Court's Bulk Telephony Metadata Orders. In granting leave by a December 18, 2013 order in Docket BR 13-158, this Court (McLaughlin, J.) directed: "The briefwill be filed in a miscellaneous docket that can be accessed by any judge of the Court when considering an application for such collection under Section 1861 in the future." Further leave to file the amicus was granted in an order entered in Misc. No. 14-01 on April 3, 2014. No. 15-01 is captioned: "In re Motion in Opposition to Goverrunent's Imminent or Recently-Made Request to Resume Bulk Data Collection under Patriot Act § 215." One of the documents now filed in No, 15-01 is a Memorandum of Law of the United States, originally filed in BR No. 15-75, which describes this Court's prior bulk telephony orders and, at p. 5, "submits that this Court's analysis continues to reflect the better reading of Section 1861." The amicus brief in No. 14-01 sets forth a detailed analysis of Section 1861 as it read prior to the June 1, 2015 sunset that, by the precise terms of the sunset statute, caused Section 1861 (title V of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) to be amended to its limited pre- , --, PATRIOT Act form. The amicus in No. 14-01 supports the conclusion, later reached by the Second Circuit, that the pre-sunset Section 1861 did not authorize the bulk metadata program. As this Court has provided that the amicus brief in No. 14-01 would be available to any judge of the Court when considering an application for bulk metadata collection in the future, we respectfully request that the relatedness of the two miscellaneous dockets be noted. PAU JENNER & BLOCK LLP 1099 New York A venue, NW Washington, DC 20001 (202) 639-6000 Counsel for Center for National Security Studies 2 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of the attached pleadings were today served by first-class U.S. Mail on the following counsel: Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, II Cuccinelli & Associates, PLLC 13881 Jordan Meadows Lane Nokesville, VA 20181 John P. Carlin Assistant Attorney General National Security Division 950 Pennsylvania A venue, NW Washington, DC 20530 Paul
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