Legal Opinion
In re Grand Jury Subpoena for: [Redacted]@ yahoo.com
District Court, N.D. California
Decided February 5, 2015No. Case No. 5:15-cr-90096-PSGPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER DENYING MOTION PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. § 2705(b)
PAUL S. GREWAL, United States Magistrate Judge
The Stored Communications Act authorizes a court to prohibit providers of electronic communications services from disclosing the existence of a grand jury subpoena. Before the court is an application from the United States for just such an order to Yahoo! Inc. But rather than requesting that Yahoo! be gagged for 60 days, 90 days or some other fixed period, the government wants Yahoo! gagged “until further order of the Court.” Because such an indefinite order would amount to an undue prior…
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