Microsoft To 2nd Circuit: European Ruling Supports Vacating Email Subpoena

Mealey's (October 9, 2015, 12:49 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — In an Oct. 6 notice filed in the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, Microsoft Corp. says that a ruling that same day by the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which was critical of U.S. extraterritorial data acquisition via warrants, supports its quest to vacate a subpoena served on it by the U.S. government requiring search and disclosure of the emails from an Irish-based Microsoft data center (In the Matter of a Warrant to Search a Certain E-Mail Account Controlled and Maintained by Microsoft Corp., No. 14-2985, 2nd Cir.)....