At a hearing yesterday, a three-judge panel of the 9th USCircuit Court of Appeals appeared unlikely to grant Wal-Mart's request to dismiss the class action.
In what most sane civilians will probably see as a depressing loss of protection, a three-judge panel of the 9th USCircuit Court of Appeals ruled that citizens can sue the United States for damages stemming from the use of information collected via wiretap, but not for the collection of information itself.