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Justice Department Refuses to Give Up on N.Y. iPhone Case

March 8, 2016

Via: Fortune
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The U.S. Justice Department on Monday resubmitted its case for Apple  AAPL -1.14%  to unlock an encrypted iPhone belonging to a drug offender to a higher judge in the Eastern District of New York.

The move was in line with what the department said it would do after a magistrate judge previously sided withApple, ruling that the Justice Department could not use a 1789 law known as the All Writs Act to compel the tech giant to unlock the phone.

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