U.S. Government: 2nd Circuit Erred In Denying Access To Irish-Based Emails

Mealey's (October 17, 2016, 1:33 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — In an Oct. 13 motion for rehearing, the U.S. government tells the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that a panel ruling improperly deemed unenforceable a warrant seeking emails stored in a Microsoft Inc. server in Ireland because the provisions of the Stored Communications Act (SCA), under which the warrant was issued, cannot apply extraterritorially (In the Matter of a Warrant to Search a Certain E-Mail Account Controlled and Maintained by Microsoft Corp.[Microsoft v. United States], No. 14-2985, 2nd Cir.)....