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Evidence Collection in Criminal Investigations: Cross-Border Issues and Corporate Employee Considerations

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In this age of heightened international enforcement of corporate crime, it is critical that companies be prepared for the possibility that government authorities will employ a variety of investigative techniques to obtain...more

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Second Circuit Resolves Important Questions Regarding Discovery in Aid of Foreign Litigation Under 28 U.S.C. § 1782

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For more than a half a century, the United States has provided a powerful tool to obtain U.S. style discovery in aid of foreign proceedings. For years the statute was seldom utilized. But, in recent years, there has been a...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Cross-Border Investigations Update - September 2019

This issue of Skadden’s semiannual Cross-Border Investigations Update takes a close look at recent cases, regulatory activity and other key developments, including a review of the first year of GDPR enforcement, analysis of...more

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Actual Impact of 2018 U.S. CLOUD Act Still Hazy

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Over a year following enactment of the U.S. “Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data” or CLOUD Act, significant questions remain unanswered about the law and its potential impact on global investigations involving cloud stored...more

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Privacy - Wherefore Art Thou? - The Third Circuit Denies 4th Amendment Right

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The Third Circuit Denies 4th Amendment Right - Let’s face it – over the last 20 years or so, we have come to embrace, celebrate, and depend completely on electronic communications. What is more, we keep reaching out to...more

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Congress Enacts the CLOUD Act, Granting Law Enforcement Access to Information Stored Abroad, and Mooting U.S. v. Microsoft

On March 23, 2018, President Trump signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018, which contained a section entitled the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act. The CLOUD Act significantly revises the...more

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The CLOUD Act: Where It Sheds Light and Where Shadows Remain

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The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act) amends the Stored Communications Act (SCA) and moots the Supreme Court's consideration of a dispute between the U.S. government and Microsoft over whether Microsoft...more

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Congress Reshapes Legal Requirements for International Access to Communications Information with the CLOUD Act

On April 17, 2018, at the request of both sides of United States v. Microsoft Corp., the U.S. Supreme Court remanded and dismissed one of the most closely watched privacy cases of the last several years just a few weeks after...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Supreme Court Rules Microsoft Case Moot as CLOUD Act Becomes Law

The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act) was recently signed into law as part of the omnibus appropriations bill. ...more

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CLOUD Act dramatically changes international privacy laws (and eDiscovery)!

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Without any public hearings, review, or public comment Congress created the CLOUD Act which was signed into law as part of the $1.3 trillion government spending bill which changed the 1986 Stored Communications Act (SCA). The...more

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The Supreme Court Dismisses As Moot Microsoft Case That Had Challenged The Government's Ability To Obtain Search Warrant For...

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On April 17, 2018, the Supreme Court dismissed United States v. Microsoft, No. 17-12, 548 U.S. ___ (2018) (per curiam), deciding that recently enacted federal legislation had mooted the legal dispute in the case. The appeal...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Supreme Court Orders Dismissal of Microsoft Case

As had been expected following the passage of the CLOUD Act by Congress last month, the U.S. Supreme Court remanded and ordered the dismissal of the pending United States v. Microsoft Corporation, Inc. case in a per curiam...more

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CLOUD Act Negates Need for Supreme Court Decision

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In a February 27 MuniBlog posting we described a case pending before the United States Supreme Court on whether the provider of email services, Microsoft, must provide electronic communications stored outside the United...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Microsoft Email Case Dismissed by Supreme Court

Yesterday, the long-running dispute between Microsoft Corp. and the U.S. government regarding data stored abroad was resolved by the United States Supreme Court. ...more

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Forecasting the Impact of the New US CLOUD Act

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The CLOUD Act resolves the central issue in United States v. Microsoft — U.S. law enforcement agencies now have explicit legal authority to obtain electronic data from U.S. cloud and communication companies regardless of...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Government and Microsoft In Agreement that Pending Case Mooted by CLOUD Act

On March 30, 2018 Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco filed a motion with the U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Microsoft Corporation that seeks to vacate the judgment of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Microsoft Joins Government’s Request to Render Fight over Access to Data Stored Abroad Moot

Yesterday, we reported that the Department of Justice has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to remand its dispute with Microsoft Corp. concerning access to customer emails stored abroad to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second...more

White and Williams LLP

United States v. Microsoft Raises Significant Questions Regarding Application of the Stored Communications Act

On Tuesday, February 27, 2018, the US Supreme Court heard oral argument in connection with an ongoing dispute between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Microsoft over data in the corporation’s datacenter in Ireland. At the...more

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The Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments In United States v. Microsoft

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On February 27, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in United States v. Microsoft, No. 17-2. The case presents the question whether a U.S.-based entity (Microsoft) must comply with a judicially-authorized...more

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What Controls: The Location of the Data or the Location of the Searches for the Data?

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The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in U.S. v. Microsoft, tackling the question of whether an organization can refuse to disclose foreign-stored data sought by the U.S. government through domestic warrants....more

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A Data Privacy Question that Borders on Reach

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Location, Location, Location. While it is often used to describe a key to selling real estate, the location of a server may be just as important. The United States Supreme Court heard arguments on February 27, 2018, on...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Supreme Court to Hear Microsoft Emails Case

In an order issued on October 16, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in United States v. Microsoft Corporation, a case with potentially far-reaching implications for the privacy of electronic data maintained by...more

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Google Ruling May Give Government an Opening to Broaden its Power Under Outdated Stored Communications Act

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As technology progresses and the world becomes even more interconnected, the scope of the Stored Communications Act (“SCA” or “Act”) has become a topic of much interest in the federal courts. One question courts have grappled...more

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Second Circuit Denies En Banc Rehearing of Stored Communications Act Decision in Microsoft Case

Last summer, in a closely watched decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit quashed a warrant issued to Microsoft seeking a customer’s electronic communications that the company had elected to store...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Sharply Divided Circuit Denies Government’s En Banc Petition In Microsoft Appeal

In July 2016, the Second Circuit ruled that the Government could not employ a domestic search warrant, issued pursuant to the Stored Communications Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2703 (the “SCA”), to compel disclosure of an email account...more

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