A flurry of filings in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s elec...
A flurry of filings in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s electronic surveillance case against AT&T this week hit the 9th U.S. Appeals Court, San Francisco, as AT&T and the U.S. appealed U.S. Dist. Court Judge Vaughn Walker’s refusal to void…
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the suit and EFF filed to dismiss the appeal. Calling Walker’s reasoning “speculation and unsupported inference,” AT&T said the case should be dismissed because pretrial discovery of evidence would compromise its trade secrets and state security, an argument the govt. echoed. EFF said AT&T and the govt. must show a “significant threat of irreparable injury” to get the case thrown out. The next district court hearing is set for Aug. 8.