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AnonTechie writes with an article from Ars Technica:

Justice Department lawyers have asked a federal court in Pittsburgh to dismiss a sweeping lawsuit brought earlier this year by a local lawyer against President Barack Obama and other top intelligence officials.

In a new motion to dismiss filed on Monday, the government told the court that the Pittsburgh lawyer, Elliott Schuchardt, lacked standing to make a claim that his rights under the Fourth Amendment have been violated as a result of multiple ongoing surveillance programs.

Specifically, Schuchardt argued in his June 2014 complaint that both metadata and content of his Gmail, Facebook, and Dropbox accounts were compromised under the PRISM program as revealed in the documents leaked by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden.

1. "AnonTechie" - https://soylentnews.org/~AnonTechie/
2. "article from Ars Technica" - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/lone-lawyer-sues-obama-alleging-illegality-of-surveillance-programs/
3. "motion to dismiss filed on Monday" - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1344062-14-main.html
4. "Elliott Schuchardt" - http://schuchardtlaw.com/
5. "June 2014 complaint" - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1344065-schuchardt-v-obama.html

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