In a rare Court of Chancery action addressing enforcement of administrative subpoenas for Delaware escheat investigations, AT&T Inc. will not be required to comply with a subpoena filed by the state’s Department of Finance last year as part of an ongoing audit.

Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster quashed the subpoena July 10, writing that the department hadn’t adequately justified its request for millions of AT&T’s electronic records to a point that the subpoena as written could be guaranteed not to constitute an abuse of the court’s process.

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