New judge, new ruling on spying

John Yoo quoted in Los Angeles Times, December 28, 2013
John Yoo … said Pauley had followed the Supreme Court’s previous rulings about what sorts of information the Fourth Amendment protects. By contrast, “Judge Leon tried to escape” what the high court had previously ruled, Yoo said in an email. “It is up to the Supreme Court, not a trial judge, to decide whether to overrule” its previous case, he said. “The conflicting decisions,” he added, “seem guaranteed to send the issue to the Supreme Court for the last word” unless the D.C. Circuit overrules Leon’s decision.