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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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)

Amicus Brief on behalf of News Media

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press,
The Seattle Times, Company,
The Associated Press,
Fox News Network, LLC,
National Public Radio, Inc.,
Washington Post,
Association of Alternative Newsmedia,
American Society of News Editors,
Association of American Publishers, Inc.,
First Amendment Coalition,
First Look Media Works, Inc.,
International Documentary Association,
Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University,
The McClatchy Company, T
he Media Institute,
National Association of Black Journalists,
The National Press Club,
National Press Photographers Association,
Newspaper Association of America,
Reporters Without Borders,
Tully Center for Free Speech,
Freedom of the Press Foundation,
California Newspaper Publishers Association,
The Center for Investigative Reporting,
Online News Association,
Radio Television Digital News Association,
The E.W. Scripps Company,
Investigative Reporters and Editors,
MPA- Association of Magazine Media,
Society of Professional Journalists.

Link to Microsoft Corporation v. United States: In the Matter of of a Warrant to Search a Certain E-mail Account Controlled and Maintained by Microsoft Corporation (2d Cir.) (warrant for email stored by Microsoft in server located in Ireland)

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).