Government Objects To Keyword Search Requirement In Email Warrants

Mealey's (October 24, 2017, 1:06 PM EDT) -- MONTGOMERY, Ala. — One month after an Alabama federal magistrate granted the U.S. government’s application for warrants to search certain email accounts, the government on Oct. 23 filed a motion for reconsideration of an ex ante requirement that the searches be conducted using keywords, calling the stricture burdensome and not necessary under the Fourth Amendment (In re Search of Information Associated with 15 Email Addresses Stored at Premises Owned, Maintained, Controlled or Operated by 1&1 Media, Inc., et al., No. 2:17-cm-03152, M.D. Ala.)....