The Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower-court ruling Tuesday that allows a case involving the Wikimedia Foundation and U.S. National Security Agency surveillance to proceed, Ars Technica reports. Wikimedia had challenged the agency's use of "Upstream" surveillance, a program originally disclosed by the Snowden leaks. The lower court had ruled the organization had no grounds to sue the NSA, but Wikimedia has argued the program violates the First and Fourth Amendments. The appeals court ruled, "Wikimedia has plausibly alleged that its communications travel all of the roads that a communication can take and that the NSA seizes all of the communications along at least one of those roads." It is not yet clear whether the government will appeal the decision to the Supreme Court or request a reconsideration. The American Civil Liberties Union applauded the ruling. 
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