NOTE to students: Before answering the questions, read "Background" below.

1. What is EPIC?

2. a) What appeal did EPIC make to the U.S. Supreme Court that the Court rejected on Monday?
b) What argument did EPIC use in its appeal to the Supreme Court?

3. How did the Obama Administration defend the FISA court's authority in this case?

4. Why isn't the law professor who filed a brief in support of EPIC not concerned that the Supreme Court declined to hear the case?

5. What is the purpose of the FISA court?

6. Only cases involving federal or Constitutional law are brought to the Supreme Court. Do you think EPIC's case is a constitutional issue that the Supreme Court should have heard, or is President Obama's U.S. Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. right in arguing that even if the order could be challenged by EPIC, “the proper course would be to file suit in a federal district court.” Explain your answer.