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Party Updates Meeting agendas/minutes moved to Meeting Minutes. Please update this document for announcements only. Political News Edit this section December 20th Congress is abandoning the 5th amendment (Article) November 26th Supreme Court rejects plea to ban taping of Illinois police (Article) November 15th Obama secretly signed a cybersecurity directive (Article) November 6th President Obama is reelected to office October 26th The FISA amendments allowing for warrantless wiretapping have gone before the Supreme Court (Article) October 11th Activist is jailed without charge for remaining silent during a grand jury (Article) October 9th The Supreme Court declined to hear a telecom privacy invasion lawsuit due to a retroactive protection law passed by Congress in 2008 (Article) October 3rd The Federal Appeals Court stayed the injunction on the NDAA's indefinite detention clause. (Article) A Senate panel found anti-terror data-sharing centers are useless (Article) August 16th US Court upholds patent law allowing "isolated" genes to be patented. (Article) August 15th The US Circuit Court of Appeals in United States vs. Skinner declared that tracking via cell phone GPS falls under "stored communications" and doesn't require a warrant. (Article) July 19th S.3414 Introduced (govtrack Text) This is a new less destructive form of CISPA, but it still requires work to become an acceptable bill. More about it by the EFF. August 2nd Failed Cloture June 8th A US Judge shot down a case between Apple and Google calling the US patent system "dysfunctional" (Article)

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