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Even though Microsoft is a U.S. corporation subject to domestic subpoenas and warrants, prosecutors are not entitled to emails stored on its servers abroad, the Second Circuit ruled last week in Microsoft Corp. v. United States. In a majority opinion by Judge Carney, the Court held that warrants under the Stored Communications Act (“SCA”) are … Continue Reading
Amended in December alongside many other rules in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 34(b)(2)(B) now requires that objections to document requests be stated with “specificity.” The early applications of the amended rule demonstrate that boilerplate objections will not stand, but courts have yet to answer more nuanced questions regarding the level of specificity … Continue Reading
You’ve Got (Foreign) Mail: Can Law Enforcement Get to it?
By David M. Jacobson on Posted in Federal Rules
Amended Rule 34: No Boilerplate Objections, but Specificity Remains a Question
By David M. Jacobson, Stacey P. Eilbaum and Brittany Benavidez on Posted in Federal Rules