Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit May 7, 2015, Docket No. 14-42-CV (American Civil Liberties Union v. Clapper)

lead-opinion

ROBERT D. SACK, Circuit Judge, concurs in the opinion of the Court and files a separate concurring opinion.

GERARD E. LYNCH, Circuit Judge:

This appeal concerns the legality of the bulk telephone metadata collection program (the “telephone metadata program”), under which the National Security Agency (“NSA”) collects in bulk “on an ongoing daily basis” the metadata associated with