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Email Proposed Legislation Stored Communications Act

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

The CLOUD Act, Explained

The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data ("CLOUD") Act was enacted into law on March 23, 2018. The Act provides that U.S. law-enforcement orders issued under the Stored Communications Act (SCA) may reach certain data...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Government Urges High Court to Moot Microsoft Email Case

We’ve written several times about the landmark dispute between the U.S. government and Microsoft Corp. over access to a customer’s emails stored in Ireland. Now, a month after the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument on the...more

Proskauer - Minding Your Business

You’ve Got (Foreign) Mail: Can Law Enforcement Get to it?

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...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Are Changes in Store for the Stored Communications Act?

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Last week saw action on two fronts regarding the Stored Communications Act (SCA) – the US federal statute regulating government searches of online accounts in criminal investigations. In Congress, a proposal to reform the SCA...more

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