Ordinarily, except for in California, federal district court judges assiduously follow Supreme Court precedent even when it is not clearly on point. But yesterday, D.C. District Court Judge Richard Leon seems to have ignored the 1979 high court ruling in Smith v. Maryland on the lack of any enforceable expectation of privacy in so-called meta-data collected by telephone companies, which seems to us to be precisely on point:
A federal judge ruled Monday that the National Security Agency program which collects information on nearly all ...
