FBI v Apple, Microsoft v Department of Justice, and Post-Riley Cell Phone Searches: Rediscovering the Fourth Amendment
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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)

Court of Appeals Decision in favor of Microsoft, 829 F.3d 197 (2016) (order that search warrant be quashed because email stored outside the United States), vacated as moot, 138 S.Ct. 1186 (2018).
Warrant that was quashed (originally filed in In the Matter of the Search of the Premises known and described as the email account [redacted]@MSN.COM, which is controlled by Microsoft Corporation (S.D.N.Y. Apr. 24, 2014), Search and Seizure Warrant (No. 13-MAG-2814), reproduced in Joint Appendix-Part 1 at A44-48
Joint Appendix on Appeal - Part 1
Joint Appendix on Appeal - Part 2


Link to 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).