NACDL News: Lower Court Dismisses Lawsuit to Stop Mass Government Surveillance

A federal district court in Maryland on Oct. 23, 2015, granted a motion by the government to dismiss Wikimedia, et al. v. NSA, a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of several organizations, including NACDL. The lawsuit challenges the National Security Agency’s (NSA) mass interception and searching of Americans’ international Internet communications. The court held that the group of plaintiffs had not made plausible allegations that their communications were, in fact, being monitored by the NSA.