A while back, I wrote about EFF's lawsuit against AT&T. I will smugly point out that EFF's opposition to AT&T's motion to dismiss made many of the points I had suggested. No, the EFF didn't get the idea from me, but it was nice to see them actually make a legal argument instead of launch off on unrelated topics.

Yesterday, the judge decided to keep the lawsuit rolling. This was a surpise to me. The decision is 70 pages long, so I haven't finished reading it yet. AT&T (and the government) will appeal. Now that the EFF is actually doing some lawyering instead of yelling and screaming, things may get interesting.

Of course, the President's decision to get a FISA ruling on whether the NSA surveillance program is legal will play into this, too.