A federal judge in Washington on Friday ruled prosecutors should be allowed to search the entire contents of an email account, overruling a magistrate judge’s concerns that the request was too broad and violated privacy rights.
U.S. District Chief Judge Richard Roberts found the government’s search-warrant application did not violate the Fourth Amendment. Earlier this year, U.S. Magistrate Judge John Facciola denied the application, finding the government used “formulaic language” and made “overbroad requests.”
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