Judges weigh combining US telecom spying suits

JUDGES WEIGH COMBINING US TELECOM SPYING SUITS
[SOURCE: Reuters, AUTHOR: Andrew Stern]
Both sides in lawsuits alleging that telephone companies unlawfully cooperated in a secret U.S. government spying program argued on Thursday that a federal court panel should give the cases to a single judge. U.S. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Carl Nichols urged the panel to transfer the roughly two-dozen cases filed around the United States to the federal court in Washington, D.C., while a plaintiff's attorney asked to have a San Francisco judge handle the class-action cases.
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