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Posted on 11/18/2013 10:59:31 AM PST by EveningStar
The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday it would not review a ruling by a secretive intelligence court that authorized government access to millions of Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) phone-call records.
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High court statism continues unabated. Much more and I can’t see people taking their rulings as binding anymore.
Oh now HERE’S a surprise.
Cowards.
Looks like Kagan has really taken control of SCROTUS. Did she major in Hypnosis or parapsychology?
Or just ate the souls out of the other eight and they’re just empty robes sitting there and she casts all nine votes.
How dare they not render a decision on an agency that has blackmailed them not to render a decision.
Anyone know offhand how many one-sentence decisions the SCOTUS issues in a session?
The Supreme Court has become as useless as the Congress.
The whole mess needs to be gotten rid of and a new Govt. formed like the founders formed it before the politicians took over.
Supreme Court again failing to do its constitutional duty... UGH.
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Thousands.
In a typical year, about 9-10,000 cases are filed with the Court, but they agree to hear only about 100 or so. All the rest are disposed of with "The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied."
They did not file in the lower courts first. I believe this is why the case was rejected.
The are apparently several other cases making their way through the system where the plaintiff has standing.
This SCOTUS is an absolute joke.
There’s always time for years of procedure when people’s civil rights are bring violated.
There are many cases working there way through the courts. This one was filed to circumvent that process.
Just out of curiosity where did "standing" come from?
“Actually, the Supreme Court did the right thing in this case”
Glad you posted that.
Not trying to keep anyone from bashing the SCOTUS, because they need it, but this decision was so easy, it’s funny.
They tried to bring a case that had no legal grounds for this high court to consider. Neither verizon nor the government had brought a case to the lower court and they are ones with standing. Verizon because it was asked to do some objectionable things and could sue civily and the government would have to defend various privacy issues.
There was no ripe case to consider, the action that came to them would hardly be a good friend of the court brief..It would be akin to bringing a case direct to SCOTUS on a human rights issue because the price of milk was too high at Piggly Wiggly and women and children were getting no calcium.
IMHO
They will get a case...won’t be too long..But it needs to have the lower courts rule on it first to give it standing at SCOTUS. More than that, the aggreeved party has to show damage or something that they can quantify. Verizon would be the best plaintiff. Not the Electronic Privacy Information Center who would normally enjoin a suit, or brief it, not file it as plaintiff..
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