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The FISA Amendments Act of 2008 authorizes the government to engage in dragnet surveillance of international communications for intelligence purposes, including the communications of U.S. citizens and residents. The ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û filed suit challenging the constitutionality of the statute on behalf of a group of lawyers, journalists and human rights organizations who reasonably fear that their international communications will be monitored by the government and have taken steps to avoid that risk – such as traveling overseas to interview witnesses and sources rather than communicating by email or telephone. A federal appeals court in New York ruled that these facts were sufficient to allow plaintiffs to challenge the law, rejecting the government’s Catch-22 argument that it need not identify whose communications are monitored but only someone who knows that he or she has been monitored can challenge the law.