FBI v Apple, Microsoft v Department of Justice, and Post-Riley Cell Phone Searches: Rediscovering the Fourth Amendment
A research resource developed by Professor Clark D. Cunningham, W. Lee Burge Chair in Law & Ethics, Georgia State University College of Law
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Cases: Microsoft v United States (two cases)

1) Microsoft Corporation v. United States: In the Matter of a Warrant to Search a Certain E-mail Account Controlled and Maintained by Microsoft Corporation (US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit)(lawsuit filed in New York challenging warrant for email stored by Microsoft in server located in Ireland)

2) Microsoft Corporation v. United States Department of Justice (US District Court for the Western District of Washington) (lawsuit filed in Seattle challenging "gag orders" that prevent customer notification of warrants)


Resources
Steven William Smith, Gagged, Sealed & Delivered: Reforming ECPA's Secret Docket, 6 Harvard Law & Policy Review 313 (2012) (Smith is a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division).