United States v. Thomas Patrick Cavanagh

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that FISA order can be considered a warrant since it is issued by a detached judicial officer and is based on a reasonable showing of probable cause
• “the purpose of the surveillance is not to ferret out criminal activity but rather to gather intelligence”
• “We reject appellant’s suggestion that FISA violates the Fourth Amendment’s particularity requirement ...”
• FISA’s probable cause standard satisfies Fourth Amendment’s reasonableness requirement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).