United States Eighth Circuit

District court erred in suppressing e-mails seized by Yahoo! technicians from the company's California-based servers, pursuant to a Minnesota state court warrant. Search was reasonable though no police officers were present when technicians executed the faxed warrant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/18/2002
• Published 11/18/2002

Judges

• BEAM, Circuit Judge., Before MURPHY, BEAM and MELLOY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bridgid E. Dowdal, argued, Asst. U.S. Atty., Minneapolis, MN (Paul H. Luehr, on the brief), for appellant., Orin S. Kerr, Washington, DC, filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Government., Jonathan Band and Lois K. Perrin, Washington, DC, filed an amicus Brief for Yahoo on behalf of appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• William M. Orth, argued, Minneapolis, MN, for appellee.