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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    Amit Mehta (category Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court)
    the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Mehta has notably presided over cases related to the January 6, 2021 United States Capitol attack...
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    James Boasberg (category Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court)
    the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He served as the presiding judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court...
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    Rosemary M. Collyer (category Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court)
    by the Chief Justice of the United States to a seven-year term on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The Court provides a measure of judicial...
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    Timothy Tymkovich (category Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review)
    Justice John Roberts to serve as a judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review. Born in Denver, Colorado, Tymkovich is...
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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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    membership of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, a "secret court" which oversees requests for surveillance warrants by federal...
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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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    Protect America Act of 2007 (category Privacy law in the United States)
    requirement for government surveillance of foreign intelligence targets "reasonably believed" to be outside the United States. The FISA Amendments Act of...
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    and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008, is an Act of Congress that amended the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act...
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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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    F. Dennis Saylor IV (category Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court)
    Massachusetts and was formerly a Judge on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Saylor was born in Royal Oak, Michigan. He received a...
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    Office of Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR), with their specialized expertise in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and other intelligence matters...
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    Bruce M. Selya (category Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review)
    chief judgeship of the Court of Review. As the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is not an adversarial court and (with few exceptions)...
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    collectively to conduct intelligence activities which support the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States. Member organizations...
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    James Robertson (judge) (category Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court)
    Robertson also served on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court from 2002 until December 2005, when he resigned from that court in protest against warrantless...
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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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    Carl J. Nichols (category Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court)
    United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and a judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance...
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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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    reviews decisions of the Board of Veterans' Appeals United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review The Judiciary Act of 1789 divided Massachusetts...
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  • Susan Webber Wright (category Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court)
    Arkansas. Wright is a former judge on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. She received national attention when she first dismissed...
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    José A. Cabranes (category Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review)
    and a former presiding judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review ("FISCR"). Formerly a practicing lawyer, government...
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