Judge Directs Microsoft, DOJ To Address 4th Amendment Concerns In ECPA Challenge

Mealey's (January 20, 2017, 1:14 PM EST) -- SEATTLE — Four days before a scheduled hearing on the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) motion to dismiss a constitutional challenge to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) by Microsoft Inc., a Washington federal judge on Jan. 19 issued a minute order directing the parties to focus their arguments on the act’s bearing on rights under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (Microsoft Corp. v. The U.S. Department of Justice, et al., No. 2:16-cv-00538, W.D. Wash.)....