In re Nat. Sec. Agency Telecomms. Records Litig.

• Citation: 633 F.Supp.2d 949
• Decision Date: 03 June 2009
• Docket Number: MDL Docket No. 06-1791 VRW.
• Court: United States District Courts. 9th Circuit. United States District Courts. 9th Circuit. Northern District of California
• Parties: In Re: NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY TELECOMMUNICATIONS RECORDS LITIGATION. This Document Relates To All Cases Except: Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, Inc. v. Bush, No. C 07-0109; Center for Constitutional Rights v. Bush, No. C 07-1115; Guzzi v. Bush, No. C 06-6225; Shubert v. Bush, No. C 07-0693; Clayton et al. v. AT & T Communications of the Southwest, Inc., et al., C 07-1187; United States v. Clayton, C 07-1242; United States v. Reishus, C 07-1323; United States v. Farber, C 07-1324; United States v. Palermino, et al., C 07-1326; United States v. Volz, et al., C 07-1396.

633 F.Supp.2d 949

In Re: NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY TELECOMMUNICATIONS RECORDS LITIGATION.

This Document Relates To All Cases Except:

Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, Inc. v. Bush, No. C 07-0109; Center for Constitutional Rights v. Bush, No. C 07-1115; Guzzi v. Bush, No. C 06-6225; Shubert v. Bush, No. C 07-0693; Clayton et al. v. AT & T Communications of the Southwest, Inc., et al., C 07-1187;

United States v. Clayton, C 07-1242; United States v. Reishus, C 07-1323; United States v. Farber, C 07-1324; United States v. Palermino, et al., C 07-1326; United States v. Volz, et al., C 07-1396.

MDL Docket No. 06-1791 VRW.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

June 3, 2009.

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Timothy L. Alger, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, Clare Iris Pastore, ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Peter Jay Eliasberg, Lisa Robin Jaskol, Los Angeles, CA, Timothy M. Bechtold, Bechtold Law Firm, William A. Rossbach, Rossbach & Whiston, Missoula, MT, James J. Brosnahan, Morrison & Foerster LLP, Cindy Ann Cohn, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Maria V. Morris, Rosen, Bien & Galvan, LLP, Karl Olson, Ram & Olson LLP, Marc Ver Der Hout, Ver Der Hout & Brigagliano, Barry R. Himmelstein, Eric B. Fastiff, Michael W. Sobol, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP, Ann Brick, Mark Schlosberg, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California Inc., Laurence F. Pulgram, Candace J. Morey, Jennifer Lloyd Kelly, Fenwick & West LLP, Cindy Ann Cohn, Corynne McSherry, James Samuel Tyre, Kevin Stuart Bankston, Kurt Bradford Opsahl, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Elena Maria Dimuzio, Covington & Burling LLP, Richard Roy Wiebe, Law Office of Richard R. Wiebe San Francisco, CA, Eric A. Isaacson, Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP, Matthew Joseph Zevin, Stanley Mandel & Iola LLP, John David Blair-Loy, Derek John Emge, Emge & Associates, San Diego, CA, Jeff D Friedman, Reed R. Kathrein, Shana E. Scarlett, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Lee Tien, Attorney at Law, Berkeley, CA, Thomas Edward Moore, III, The Moore Law Group, Palo Alto, CA, Jodi W. Flowers, Vincent Ian Parrett, Kimberly B. Baden, Motley Rice, LLC, Mount Pleasant, SC, Steven Edward Schwarz, Law Offices of Steven E. Schwarz, Harvey Michael Grossman, Adam D. Schwartz, Wendy Sangbee Park, Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU, Inc., Daniel Martin Feeney, Marc Oliver Beem, Zachary J. Freeman, Miller Shakman & Beem LLP, F. Thomas Hecht, James M. Carlson, Michael James Philippi, Ungaretti & Harris LLP, Clinton Arthur Krislov, William Joel Vander Vliet, Krislov & Associates, LTD., Myron Milton Cherry, Jacie C. Zolna, Myron M. Cherry & Associates LLC, Cary Neal Goldberg, Law Offices of Cary N. Goldberg, Daniel J. Becka, Beigel Schy Lasky Rifkind Goldberg & Fertik LTD., Donald A. Statland, Chicago, IL, Ilann Margalit Maazel, Matthew Delmont Brinckerhoff, Emery

Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP, Shayana Devendra Kadidal, Alexander E Barnett, Jonathan L. Hafetz, Michael Ratner, William Goodman, New York, NY, R. James George, Jr., D. Douglas Brothers, George & Brothers, L.L.P., Austin, TX, Robert Carl Hilliard, Hilliard & Munoz, LLP, Robert J Patterson, Mikal C. Watts, Watts Law Firm, LLP, Darrell Lee Barger, Hartline Acus et al., Corpus Christi, TX, Roger L. Mandel, Martin Darren Woodward, Stanley Mandel & Iola LLP, Dallas, TX, Michael C. O'Malley, Siben & Siben, LLP, Bayshore, NY, Michael J. Ross, Slater Ross, Christopher Slater, Andrew S. Kierstead, Attorney at Law, Jessica Ashlee Albies, Steenson Schumann Tewksbury Creighton & Rose PC, Steven Goldberg, Portland, OR, Michael Alan St. Pierre, Revens Revens & St. Pierre, Warwick, RI, Nicholas John Paul Wagner, Law Offices of Wagner & Jones, Fresno, CA, Conrad S.P. Williams, III, Melanie G. Lagarde, Joseph G. Jevic, III, St. Martin, Williams & Bourque, Houma, LA, Nicole A. Ozer, ACLU of Northern California, San Jose, CA, Bert Voorhees, Theresa M. Traber, Esq., Traber & Voorhees, Pasadena, CA Peter Wasylyk, Law Offices of Peter Wasylyk, Amato A. Deluca, Deluca & Weizenbaum, LTD., Donald A. Migliori, Motley Rice LLC, Providence, RI, Edward Morgan Carstarphen, III, Ellis Carstarphen et al., Houston, TX, Anthony D. Irpino, Irpino Law Firm, Justin Isreal Woods, Gainsburgh, Benjamin, David, Meunier & Warshauer, Val Patrick Exnicios, Amy Collins Fontenot, Gerald E. Meunier, New Orleans, LA, Linda S. George, Laudig George Rutherford & Sipes, W. Russell Sipes, Todd C. Barnes, George & Sipes, Indianapolis, IN, Ari Y. Brown, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Matthew Phineas Bergman, Law Office of Matthew Bergman, Seattle, WA, Gary E. Mason, The Mason Law Firm, LLP, Carl J. Nichols, United States Department of Justice, Nicholas A. Migliaccio, David Cole, Washington, DC, John C. Whitfield, Whitfield & Cox PSC, Madisonville, KY, Joshua Graeme Whitaker, Griffin Whitaker LLP, Edward Nelson Griffin, Silver Spring, MD, Michael D. Donovan, Donovan Searles, LLC, Philadelphia, PA, John Richard Gillespie, Jr., Broad and Cassel, Fort Lauderdale, FL, M. Stephen Turner, Broad & Cassel, Kelly Overstreet Johnson, Tallahassee, FL, Jacob B. Perkinson, Johnson & Perkinson, South Burlington, VT, Bruce Ira Afran, Bruce Afran, Attorney at Law, Carl J. Mayer, Princeton, NJ, David H. Sternlieb, Shapiro & Sternlieb, LLC, Manalapan, NJ, Sidney M. Bach, Asheville, NC, Joseph Richard Dulle, Sam Jonathan Alton, Stone, Leyton & Gershman, P.C., St. Louis, MO, Jon B. Eisenberg, Eisenberg & Hancock, Oakland, CA, Thomas Howard Nelson, Welches, OR, Zaha S. Hassan, Law Offices of Zaha Hassan, Lake Oswego, OR, James M. Evangelista, David J. Worley, Page Perry LLC, David L. Balser, McKenna Long & Aldridge, LLP, Atlanta, GA, Michael Avery, National Lawyer's Guild, Boston, MA, Jennifer Leigh Heintz, Missouri Public Service Commission, Jefferson City, MO, Victoria S. Shin, U.S. Attorney's Office, New Haven, CT, Irene E. Dowdy, Office of the US Attorney, Trenton, NJ, Susan J. Steele, United States Attorney's Office, Newark, NJ, Michael P. Drescher, Office of the US Attorney, Burlington, VT, Brian Hugh Adler, Bader Stillman & Adler PL, Margate, FL, for Plaintiffs.

Aimee Athena Feinberg, Munger, Tolles & Olson, Marc H. Axelbaum, Bruce A. Ericson, David Lloyd Anderson, Jacob R. Sorensen, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw, San Francisco, CA, C.J. Johnson, Kalkstein Law Firm, Missoula, MT, Henry Weissmann, Susan Rochelle Szabo, Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, Robert John Benson, Hogan & Hartson L.L.P., Los Angeles, CA, John Beisner, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Samir Chandra Jain, Wilmerhale Brian Matthew Boynton, Catherine M.A. Carroll, Randolph D. Moss, Kalea Seitz Clark, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Edward Robert McNicholas, Eric Alan Shumsky, Bradford Allan Berenson, David L. Lawson, Peter D. Keisler, Sidley Austin LLP, Anthony Joseph Coppolino, Renee S. Orleans, Tracy Rupa Tumlin-Bhattacharyya, Paul Gerald Freeborne, Andrea Marie Gacki, J. Marcus Meeks, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, John G. Kester, Brendan V. Sullivan, Daniel D. Williams, Eric A. Reicher, Williams & Connolly LLP, Christopher Robert Zaetta, Ty Cobb, Hogan & Hartson, Washington, DC, Elizabeth Rogers Brannen, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP, Mark D. Flanagan, Wilmerhale, Daniel John Richert, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Palo Alto, CA, Randal S. Milch, William P. Barr, Verizon Communications Inc., Baskin Ridge, NJ, Michael P. Kenny, Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, GA, Alan Norris Salpeter, Sheila Marie Finnegan, Michele L. Odorizzi, Tyrone C. Fahner, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, Jonathan D. King, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary LLP, David William Carpenter, Craig Allen Knot, Sidley Austin LLP, Thomas P. Walsh, United States Attorney's Office NDIL, Chicago, IL, Albert L. Frevola, Jr., Vanessa Dawn Sloat-Rogers, Gordon Hargrove & James, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Michael R. Fruehwald, Barnes & Thornburg, Raymond A. Basile, Stephen E. Arthur, Harrison & Moberly, A. David Stippler, Brian W. Welch, Bingham McHale, LLP, Indianapolis, IN, Ted W. Stroud, Oade Stroud & Kleiman PC, East Lansing, MI, Anthony J. Zarillo, Jr., Courter, Kobert & Cohen, PC, Hackettstown, NJ, Joseph R. Knight, Baker Botts LLP, Austin, TX, Philip J. John, Jr., Baker & Botts, Shira R. Yoshor, Houston, TX, Jason S. Ritchie, Holland & Hart, Billings, MT, Steven K. Blackhurst, Ater Wynne Hewitt Dodson & Skerritt, Portland, OR, Harry Rosenberg, Phelps Dunbar, LLP, Nancy Scott Degan, Matthew A. Woolf, Paul Lee Peyronnin, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, New Orleans, LA, Lauren A. Stern, Steven Chung & Associates LLLC, Honolulu, HI, Michael E. Kipling, Kipling Law Group PLLC, Seattle, WA, Lori McAllister, Dykema Gossett PLLC, Lansing, MI, F. Larkin Fore, Sarah M. Fore, Fore, Miller & Schwartz, Louisville, KY, Amanda J. Hettinger, Stephen B. Higgins, Sharon B. Rosenberg, Thompson Coburn LLP, John F. Medler, Jr., Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, St. Louis, MO, Andrew M. Carlson, Thomas Erik Bailey, Briggs & Morgan, PA, Minneapolis, MN, John G. Haines, Tatiana Damianova Eirmann, Attorney General's Office, William Lynch Vallee, Jr., State of Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel, New Britain, CT, Robert B. Flynn, Tyler, Cooper & Alcorn, New Haven, CT, Robert J. Metzler, II, Tyler Cooper & Alcorn, Andrew M. Schatz, Seth R. Klein, Wayne T. Boulton, Schatz Nobel Izard P.C., Renee Colette Redman, American Civil Liberties Union, Hartford, CT, Richard C. Fipphen, Verizon Communications, Inc., Robert Jude Demento, Hogan & Hartson, LLP, New York, NY, Stanley A. Twardy, Jr., Terence J. Gallagher, Day Pitney LLP, Stamford, CT, Christopher C. Taub, Linda J. Conti, Maine Attorney General, Peter B. Lafond, Augusta, ME, William D. Hewitt, Pierce Atwood LLP, Zachary Lee Heiden, MCLU Foundation, John M.R. Paterson, Bernstein Shur, Christopher B. Branson, Murray Plumb & Murray, Portland, ME, Patrick Dealmeida, Office of the NJ Attorney General, Trenton, NJ, Mark J. Distefano, Michael Nicholas Donofrio, Vermo...