Federal Magistrate Judge John Facciola was introduced during a 2008 conference as the “Italian Stallion of e-discovery.” Appointed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in 1997, Facciola has long been at the forefront of technology and the law. But now he’s back in the national spotlight over the scope of prosecutors’ power to access electronically stored information.
Since March, Facciola has denied search warrants for electronic information at least five times. He has criticized prosecutors’ “overbroad” requests for access to email and failure to explain how they would constitutionally search information on cellphones and other electronic devices.
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