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Story says it was a warrant. Not a request or a subpoena. Fighting a warrant isn't really possible. Defense can move to suppress it at pretrial, but FB has no s
by tootie 4y ago
Story says it was a warrant. Not a request or a subpoena. Fighting a warrant isn't really possible. Defense can move to suppress it at pretrial, but FB has no standing to refuse to service a warrant.
- wpietri 4y agoCould you say a bit more? IANAL, but I only know about warrants in the context of them coming in and taking stuff. I don't know what a warrant could even mean here, especially given that the information isn't physically in Nebraska. Ok, I just double-checked that, and apparently Facebook has a Nebraska data center. So the information could possibly be there. But I have a hard time imagining Nebraska PD going into a 10-acre data center and just grabbing servers.
- tootie 4y agoWarrants don't need to be for physical items. Even pre-internet, PD could issue a warrant for phone records and it doesn't matter where or how the records are stored. They just need the records to be turned over for inspection. Nebraska can sanction anyone who doesn't comply with a warrant.
- wpietri 4y agoThanks. I have looked for information on this and can't find much. Maybe part of this is per-state variation?