When the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit convenes Nov. 4 to hear a challenge to government surveillance, lawyers will make their case to one judge — Senior Judge David Sentelle — who has grappled in recent years with the intersection of individual privacy rights and technology.

The D.C. Circuit last week identified the three judges — Sentelle, Stephen Williams and Janice Rogers Brown­ — who will decide whether the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of phone records violates the Fourth Amendment.