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Thats ONE for David, still too many for Goliath

Posted in News, Politics by Dan at 3:59 pm
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From Slashdot:

In a victory today for the ACLU, (and many Slashdotters I presume) the section of the Patriot Act which gives power to the FBI to demand confidential financial records from companies as part of terrorist investigations has been ruled unconstitutional by a U.S. District Judge. Victor Marreo, the District Judge who made this ruling, states that the provision of the Patriot Act in question ‘effectively bars or substantially deters any judicial challenge.’

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