One day after the U.S. Supreme Court decided a key question on the global application of federal laws, Microsoft Corp. seized on the decision to bolster its argument that the United States cannot enforce a search warrant for emails stored on a foreign computer.

In a letter to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, a lawyer for Microsoft, E. Joshua Rosenkranz of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, said the justices’ June 20 decision in RJR Nabisco v. European Community bolstered the company’s position in a pending appeal.

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