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    The United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), also called the FISA Court, is a U.S. federal court established under the Foreign Intelligence...
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    The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA, Pub. L. 95–511, 92 Stat. 1783, 50 U.S.C. ch. 36) is a United States federal law that establishes...
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    The United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review (FISCR) is a U.S. federal court whose sole purpose is to review denials of applications...
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    the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review in its 2008 In re Directives decision. The lower court held that "a foreign intelligence...
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    James Boasberg (category Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court)
    Justice John Roberts appointed Boasberg to the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) in 2014, and he served as the presiding judge...
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    the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. It would later be joined by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in 1978. The institutions worked...
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    in January 2007 and resumed seeking warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). In 2008, Congress passed the FISA Amendments Act...
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  • Pursuant to Section 105B of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act" (PDF). United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review (via the Federation...
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  • United States Court of International Trade United States Court of Federal Claims United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court United States bankruptcy...
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    membership of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, a "secret court" which oversees requests for surveillance warrants by federal...
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  • Cicada 3301, hacker Connor testifies in front of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court about the events that transpired. Connor explains...
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    Amit Mehta (category Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court)
    judge on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Mehta presided over cases related to attack on the United States Capitol on January...
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  • upheld by the courts. In a 2002 opinion entitled In re: Sealed Case No. 02-001, the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review examined...
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    Louis Guirola Jr. (category Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court)
    judge on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the United States Alien Terrorist Removal Court. Born in Baltimore, Guirola received...
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    from the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, a secret court created for that purpose under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)...
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  • Timothy D. DeGiusti (category Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court)
    of Oklahoma as well as the judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. DeGiusti was born in Oklahoma City and attended Douglas...
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  • Court of the United States. Article III courts (also called Article III tribunals) are the U.S. Supreme Court and the inferior courts of the United States...
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    Reggie Walton (category Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court)
    Roberts appointed him to a seat on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. His term on the FISA Court ended May 18, 2014. He assumed senior...
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    Military Court Act. The United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has the authority to issue warrants authorizing surveillance of suspected...
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  • grounds that they are terrorists. The Court is modeled after the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, and was created by Pub. L. 104–132...
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    Edward Leavy (category Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review)
    the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, and the United States District...
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    Carl J. Nichols (category Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court)
    2019. He has concurrently served as a judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court since 2024. Nichols received a Bachelor of Arts...
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    George Z. Singal (category Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court)
    Maine and also serves as a judge on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Singal was born in a refugee camp in Florence, Italy in 1945...
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    Claire Eagan (category Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court)
    District of Oklahoma and a former Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Effective February 12, 2020, Chief Justice John G. Roberts...
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    Colleen Kollar-Kotelly (category Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court)
    (2000–2002), and later as Presiding Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, where she served from 2002 to 2009. She assumed...
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  • In re Sealed Case No. 02-001 (category United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review case law)
    the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review in which it reviewed restrictions that were placed upon a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance...
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  • Liam O'Grady (category Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court)
    appointed as a judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and as a judge of the Alien Terrorist Removal Court. He retired in August...
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    Rudolph Contreras (category Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court)
    Columbia. He served as Presiding Judge on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court from 2021 to 2023. In December 2017 he briefly presided...
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    Stephen A. Higginson (category Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review)
    U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He also serves as the Presiding Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review...
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    Mary B. McCord (category United States attorneys for the District of Columbia)
    Constitution. Within the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, McCord has the distinction...
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