Room 641A

One day I was getting out of my car to carry groceries into my house. Our nice neighbor was passing on the sidewalk at that moment, saw the EFF hat I was wearing, and asked me about it. "Do you work for the EFF?" "No, but I throw some money at them when I can because I like them." "Oh. I like them, too. They helped me out a lot once." "Oh yeah? For what?" He laughed. "I'm Mark Klein…

> [The class action lawsuit against AT&T] was dismissed on December 29, 2011 based on a retroactive grant of immunity by Congress for telecommunications companies that cooperated with the government. What an overreach of power on the part of Congress. Something goes to court to discuss its legality, and then Congress retroactively declares it to be legal? Yikes.

I work across the street from this building. One thing I noticed is that in early 2015 they boarded up the balcony on the 6th floor. Presumably it was to stop someone from gaining access to this room by climbing up the side of the building and breaking in through the balcony door. http://imgur.com/SA4DRjo

...the case was ... dismissed ... based on a retroactive grant of immunity by Congress for telecommunications companies that cooperated with the government. I thought ex post facto laws were expressly forbidden by the Constitution (minus certain exceptions [1] that have arisen in case law over the years). Did it work in this case because it was a civil instead of criminal matter? [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law#United_Sta...