The formality they’re talking, and the dismissals they’re talking about are for all the class action lawsuits the telco’s are facing. They are not talking about getting a wiretap warrant being a formaility.
Do you really think AT&T should be sued for millions, if not billions, for doing what the government told them was legal? I mean come on, we’re not talking black and white herding millions of jews to the gas chambers nuremberg trials here.