Lawful: A federal judge in New York ruled Friday that the Nation Security Agency's gathering of information about all telephone calls placed in, to and from the United States is lawful, the New York Law Journal reports. U.S. District Judge William Pauley III concluded in American Civil Liberties Union v. Clapper that the NSA's telephony metadata program is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment, given the "horrific" consequences of international terrorism as shown on Sept. 11, 2001.
Dismissed: A federal judge in New Orleans has thrown out nearly all remaining lawsuits against the federal government for damages that resulted from levees and floodwalls that failed during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, The Times-Picayune reports.
Signing Up: More than 1 million people have signed up for health insurance through the troubled Healthcare.gov, The Associated Press reports.
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