Government To High Court: CLOUD Act Moots Argued Microsoft Email Access Suit

Mealey's (April 3, 2018, 1:08 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. government on March 30 moved to vacate a case regarding extraterritorial application of a Stored Communications Act (SCA) warrant that it argued before the U.S. Supreme Court a month earlier, asserting that the recently passed Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act) mooted Microsoft Corp.’s objections to producing foreign-stored emails (United States v. Microsoft Corp., No. 17-2, U.S. Sup.)....