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A Needle In A Legal Haystack Could Sink A Major Supreme Court Privacy Case

A Supreme Court case undone? The CLOUD Act, recently passed in the omnibus spending bill, likely to moot one of the term's blockbuster cases.

It looks like one of the marquis cases before the U.S. Supreme Court is about to go bust — sabotaged by a needle in a legislative haystack.

The question in the case is whether a U.S. technology company can refuse to honor a court-ordered U.S. search warrant seeking information that is stored at a facility outside the United States.

Oral arguments took place at the Supreme Court last month,

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