Cybersecurity & Tech Surveillance & Privacy

Apple Wins a Round

Susan Hennessey
Monday, February 29, 2016, 9:39 PM

Magistrate Judge James Orenstein in the Eastern District of New York has ruled that the government's request for assistance from Apple to extract data from a phone operating iOS 7—an older operating system than the one at issue in California—is not permissible under the All Writs Act.

The full opinion is below.

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Magistrate Judge James Orenstein in the Eastern District of New York has ruled that the government's request for assistance from Apple to extract data from a phone operating iOS 7—an older operating system than the one at issue in California—is not permissible under the All Writs Act.

The full opinion is below.

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Susan Hennessey was the Executive Editor of Lawfare and General Counsel of the Lawfare Institute. She was a Brookings Fellow in National Security Law. Prior to joining Brookings, Ms. Hennessey was an attorney in the Office of General Counsel of the National Security Agency. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of California, Los Angeles.

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