From CNN.com:
A federal appeals court Friday ordered the dismissal of an ACLU lawsuit challenging President Bush's domestic surveillance program. President Bush secretly instituted the National Security Agency's domestic spying program after 9/11.
The plaintiff -- a navy blue track suit -- had no legal standing to pursue its claims because the empty suit could not show it was targeted by the National Security Agency's warrantless spying program, the court decided in a 2-1 vote.
"It cannot establish that it's an 'aggrieved persons,'" wrote Judge Alice Batchelder, of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, "Because it is neither a person nor capable of being aggrieved."
Alice, requesting anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case, added that "The suit can't even walk. The pictures are staged to make him -- er, it -- look more human, but most of the time this suit just sits laid out on a bed or folded over a chair. It's an insult to justice."
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