To clarify on the legal history - this dismissal merely states that the case no longer matters thanks to the CLOUD Act. The CLOUD Act resolves this by allowing

To clarify on the legal history - this dismissal merely states that the case no longer matters thanks to the CLOUD Act. The CLOUD Act resolves this by allowing the US Government use a warrant to force US companies to turn over data on any US citizen that it has stored abroad. To me, the CLOUD Act is a reasonable compromise. It continues to grant the US government access only to US citizen information. It is not a ruling on whether the US government can access other data stored by US companies abroad. The original case started because Microsoft argued that the US Government has no right to access data stored abroad, because that would give unprecedented access to non-citizens' data. The government argued that it did.