Microsoft: High Court RICO Ruling Supports Vacating Subpoena For Irish Emails

Mealey's (June 24, 2016, 8:18 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — In a notice of supplemental authority letter filed June 21 in the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, Microsoft Corp. says that the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling in RJR Nabisco Inc. v. European Community (No. 15-138, 2016 U.S. LEXIS 3925 [U.S., June 20, 2016]), which pertained to the extraterritorial application of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, supports Microsoft’s position that it cannot be subpoenaed to supply email contents that are located 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.)....