United States v. Microsoft Corp.
U.S. Supreme Court · decided April 17, 2018 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Decided
- April 17, 2018
- Docket
- No. 17-2
- Argued
- February 27, 2018
- Term
- October Term 2017
- Vote
- 9–0
- Issue area
- Judicial Power
- Disposition
- Vacated and remanded
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
How the Justices voted
- Majority
- Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Kennedy, Justice Thomas, Justice Ginsburg, Justice Breyer, Justice Alito, Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, Justice Gorsuch
Oral argument transcript and advocates
Opinion excerpt
(Slip Opinion) Cite as: 584 U. S. ____ (2018) 1 Per Curiam NOTICE: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the preliminary print of the United States Reports. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Wash- ington, D. C. 20543, of any typographical or other formal errors, in order that corrections may be made before the preliminary print goes to press. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES _________________ No. 17–2 _________________ UNITED STATES, PETITIONER v. MICROSOFT CORPORATION ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT [April 17, 2018] PER CURIAM. The Court granted certiorari in this case to decide whether, when the Government has obtained a warrant under 18 U. S. C. §2703, a U. S. provider of e-mail services must disclose to the Government electronic communica- tions within its control even if the provider stores the communications abroad. 583 U. S. ___ (2017). In December 2013, federal law enforcement agents applied to the United States District Court for the South- ern District of New York for a §2703 warrant requiring Microsoft to disclose all e-mails and other information associated with the account of one of its customers. Satis- fied that the agents had demonstrated probable cause to believe that the account was being used to further illegal drug…
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