Government To High Court: SCA Warrant Required Disclosure Of Foreign-Stored Data

Mealey's (December 11, 2017, 11:46 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a Dec. 6 petition for certiorari, the U.S. government argues that a warrant issued under the Stored Communications Act (SCA) obligated Microsoft Corp.to provide a user’s email data that it happened to store abroad, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ finding that the presumption against extraterritoriality barred such foreign application of the statute (United States v. Microsoft Corp., No. 17-2, U.S. Sup.)....