Supreme Court To Hear Case On Foreign Application Of Stored Communications Act

Mealey's (October 16, 2017, 11:39 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Over the opposition of Microsoft Corp., the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 16 granted the U.S. government’s petition for certiorari to decide whether a warrant issued under the Stored Communications Act (SCA) can be applied extraterritorially to require an email provider to produce data that is stored on foreign servers (United States v. Microsoft Corp. [In re:  Warrant to Search a Certain E-Mail Account Controlled and Maintained by Microsoft Corp.], No. 17-2, U.S. Sup.)....