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A federal appeals court in the District of Columbia has lifted an injunction against the National Security Agency’s call records program on grounds that the plaintiff has not proved his own phone records were collected and so lacks standing to sue.The move lifts a ban on the NSA’s collection that had been imposed –and temporarily stayed—by a U.S. District Court judge in December 2013.The program, after it was acknowledged by the government in the summer of 2013, spurred heated national, congressional and legal debate over whether it was proper and lawful for the NSA to collect millions of Americans’ phone records in an effort to detect terrorist plots.[Read the federal appeals court ruling that lifts an injunction against the NSA phone call records program]Congress in June put an end to the program, passing a law that barred the government from collecting phone and other records in bulk. But the NSA is continuing to do so as it transitions the program to phone companies by December.In Friday’s ruling, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia sent the case back to the lower court for further deliberation on the standing issue.Circuit Court Judge Stephen F. Williams, wrote that the lead plaintiff, conservative legal activist Larry Klayman, “lack direct evidence” that records involving his calls “have actually been collected.”Klayman, the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, is a customer of Verizo
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