Following suit with two other federal district court judges, U.S. District Judge Juan Sánchez of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Thursday ruled that Google Inc. must comply with a warrant to turn over data stored overseas to aid a U.S. criminal investigation.

Sánchez’s decision is another rebuke of a controversial ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 2016 in favor of Microsoft Corp. that warrants issued under the Stored Communications Act (SCA) cannot grant access to data stored outside the United States.

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