By Larry Neumeister
ASSOCIATED PRESS
3:42 a.m. November 3, 2005
NEW YORK – A federal appeals panel has suggested it might require the government to permit libraries, major corporations and other groups to challenge FBI demands for records under the Patriot Act. <snip>
The court was hearing appeals by the government of rulings in separate cases in New York and Connecticut.
In Connecticut, a federal judge ruled that librarians were unfairly prevented from joining a debate over how the Patriot Act should be rewritten because of a gag order issued in an FBI records request about patrons. <snip>
In the New York case, a federal judge had ruled that national security letters violate the Constitution because they amount to unreasonable search and seizure. <snip>
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