A California woman working on a novel is among the plaintiffs in a class action against AT&T for cooperating with secret government eavesdropping. Carolyn Jewel says she felt she had to avoid certain topics for her book because her online research could be the subject of wiretaps. Lawyers for AT&T and the government are trying to convince U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker that chilling effects on customers don't amount to enough harm to give them standing.
May 30, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Carolyn Jewel says the federal government’s warrantless wiretapping program is giving her writer’s block.
“I have recently begun to write in a new genre (action and futuristic romance),” the Petaluma, Calif., database-administrator-cum-novelist — and named plaintiff in a class action against AT&T for cooperating with secret government eavesdropping — wrote in court papers earlier this year.
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