U.S. District Judge Upholds Magistrate's Decision Requiring Microsoft To Comply with Search Warrant for Customer E-mails Stored Abroad

                On July 31, 2014, U.S. District Court Judge Loretta Preska, ruling from the bench, upheld the decision of U.S. Magistrate Judge James C. Francis IV, requiring Microsoft to comply with a U.S. search warrant to produce the contents of one of its customer’s e-mails where that information is stored on a server located in Dublin, Ireland. The information is wanted in a narcotics investigation.[1]