JohnQPublic
10th June 2013, 01:04 PM
Lawsuit against Obama admin., NSA, DOJ, Verizon, and Judge Vinson (re: NSA spying) (http://www.scribd.com/doc/146930457/PRISM-Class)
"...Plaintiff, Larry Klayman, a former U.S. Department of Justice prosecutor, and PlaintiffsCharles and Mary Ann Strange (collectively “Plaintiffs”) bring this action on their own behalf and on behalf of a class of persons defined below. Plaintiffs hereby sue Barack Hussein Obama,Eric Holder, Keith B. Alexander, Lowell McAdam, Roger Vinson, Verizon Communications, theU.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”), and the National Security Agency (“NSA”), (collectively“Defendants”), in their personal and official capacities, for violating Plaintiffs’ constitutionalrights, Plaintiffs’ reasonable expectation of privacy, free speech and association, right to be freeof unreasonable searches and seizures, and due process rights, as well as certain common lawclaims, for directly and proximately causing Plaintiffs mental and physical pain and suffering harm as a result of the below pled illegal and criminal acts..."
"...This is an action for violations of the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to the U.S.Constitution. This is also an action for violations of privacy, including intrusion uponseclusion, freedom of expression and association, due process, and other illegal acts.Plaintiffs bring this action on behalf of themselves and all other similarly situated consumers,users, and U.S. citizens who are customers and users of Defendant Verizon Communications(“Verizon”)...
This case challenges the legality of Defendants’ participation and conduct in a secret an dillegal government scheme to intercept and analyze vast quantities of domestic telephonic communications. Specifically, on June 5, 2013, The Guardian posted a classified order from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court directing Verizon to turn over, “on an ongoing daily basis,” the following tangible things: “All call detail records or “telephony metadata” created by Verizon for communications (i) between the United States and abroad;or (ii) wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls.”...
This would give the NSA over one hundred millions phone records on a daily basis. The information would also include a list of all the people that Verizon customers call and who called them; how long they spoke; and perhaps, where they were on a given day. Further,there is nothing in the order requiring the government to destroy the records after a certain amount of time nor is there any provisions limiting who can see and hear the data.4.
The order, issued and signed by Judge Roger Vinson, violates the U.S. Constitution and also federal laws, including, but not limited to, the outrageous breach of privacy, freedom of speech, freedom of association, and the due process rights of American citizens...
...This surveillance program was authorized and ordered by the President and primarily undertaken by the NSA and the other Defendants, intercepting and analyzing the communication of hundreds of millions of Americans. Prior to this disclosure and revelation,Plaintiffs and class members had no reasonable opportunity to discover the existence of the surveillance program or the violation of the laws alleged herein.6.
Defendant Verizon maintains domestic telecommunications facilities over which hundreds of millions of Americans’ telephone communications pass every day. They also manage someof the largest databases in the world containing records of most or all communications made through their myriad telecommunications services and operations...
Defendant Verizon has opened its key telecommunication databases to direct access by the NSA and/or other government agencies, intercepting and disclosing to the government the contents of its customers as well as detailed communication records over one hundred million of its customers, including Plaintiffs and class members. On information and belief,Defendant Verizon continues to assist the government in its secret surveillance of over one hundred million of ordinary Americans citizens just on a daily basis.8.
Plaintiffs and members of the class are suing for declaratory relief, damages, and injunctive relief to stop this illegal conduct and hold Defendants, individually and collectively,responsible for their illegal collaboration in the surveillance program, which has violated the law and damaged the fundamental freedoms of American citizens..."
"...Plaintiff, Larry Klayman, a former U.S. Department of Justice prosecutor, and PlaintiffsCharles and Mary Ann Strange (collectively “Plaintiffs”) bring this action on their own behalf and on behalf of a class of persons defined below. Plaintiffs hereby sue Barack Hussein Obama,Eric Holder, Keith B. Alexander, Lowell McAdam, Roger Vinson, Verizon Communications, theU.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”), and the National Security Agency (“NSA”), (collectively“Defendants”), in their personal and official capacities, for violating Plaintiffs’ constitutionalrights, Plaintiffs’ reasonable expectation of privacy, free speech and association, right to be freeof unreasonable searches and seizures, and due process rights, as well as certain common lawclaims, for directly and proximately causing Plaintiffs mental and physical pain and suffering harm as a result of the below pled illegal and criminal acts..."
"...This is an action for violations of the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to the U.S.Constitution. This is also an action for violations of privacy, including intrusion uponseclusion, freedom of expression and association, due process, and other illegal acts.Plaintiffs bring this action on behalf of themselves and all other similarly situated consumers,users, and U.S. citizens who are customers and users of Defendant Verizon Communications(“Verizon”)...
This case challenges the legality of Defendants’ participation and conduct in a secret an dillegal government scheme to intercept and analyze vast quantities of domestic telephonic communications. Specifically, on June 5, 2013, The Guardian posted a classified order from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court directing Verizon to turn over, “on an ongoing daily basis,” the following tangible things: “All call detail records or “telephony metadata” created by Verizon for communications (i) between the United States and abroad;or (ii) wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls.”...
This would give the NSA over one hundred millions phone records on a daily basis. The information would also include a list of all the people that Verizon customers call and who called them; how long they spoke; and perhaps, where they were on a given day. Further,there is nothing in the order requiring the government to destroy the records after a certain amount of time nor is there any provisions limiting who can see and hear the data.4.
The order, issued and signed by Judge Roger Vinson, violates the U.S. Constitution and also federal laws, including, but not limited to, the outrageous breach of privacy, freedom of speech, freedom of association, and the due process rights of American citizens...
...This surveillance program was authorized and ordered by the President and primarily undertaken by the NSA and the other Defendants, intercepting and analyzing the communication of hundreds of millions of Americans. Prior to this disclosure and revelation,Plaintiffs and class members had no reasonable opportunity to discover the existence of the surveillance program or the violation of the laws alleged herein.6.
Defendant Verizon maintains domestic telecommunications facilities over which hundreds of millions of Americans’ telephone communications pass every day. They also manage someof the largest databases in the world containing records of most or all communications made through their myriad telecommunications services and operations...
Defendant Verizon has opened its key telecommunication databases to direct access by the NSA and/or other government agencies, intercepting and disclosing to the government the contents of its customers as well as detailed communication records over one hundred million of its customers, including Plaintiffs and class members. On information and belief,Defendant Verizon continues to assist the government in its secret surveillance of over one hundred million of ordinary Americans citizens just on a daily basis.8.
Plaintiffs and members of the class are suing for declaratory relief, damages, and injunctive relief to stop this illegal conduct and hold Defendants, individually and collectively,responsible for their illegal collaboration in the surveillance program, which has violated the law and damaged the fundamental freedoms of American citizens..."