Microsoft will not hand over overseas email, despite order

Jonathan Stempel and Bill Rigby report:

A  judge on Friday lifted a suspension on her order directing Microsoft Corp  to turn over a customer’s emails stored overseas to U.S. prosecutors, but the software company said it would not release any emails while it appeals the ruling.

Chief Judge Loretta Preska of the U.S. District Court in Manhattan had on July 31 upheld a magistrate judge’s ruling on the emails, which have been held in a data center in Ireland.

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