Good news for those who care about holding the government to the Constitution. Granted, it will still eventually get to the Supreme Court, and I don't really trust most of the current "conservative" justices very much on civil liberties. I read something from Scalia a while back where he didn't completely give away his opinion but he seemed to think he would decide it based on the word "unreasonable" in the 4th amendment. He kind of hinted he'd rule in favor of the government essentially based on the idea that terrorism is so scary that it's not "unreasonable" to dump the entire country's phone records into the government's possession. It might be hard to find that article, and I'm not a lawyer, but I thought it was pretty weak and crappy reasoning from supposedly a constitutional purist.
http://news.yahoo.com/us-appeals-cou...135802746.html