Split 2nd Circuit Declines To Rehear Suit Over Warrant For Foreign-Based Emails

Mealey's (January 25, 2017, 8:33 AM EST) -- NEW YORK — In a Jan. 24 ruling, the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied the U.S. government’s motion to rehear en banc a dispute in which a panel held that warrants issued under the Stored Communications Act (SCA) cannot be used to obtain emails stored in servers in other countries (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.)....