Google Inc. on Friday lost another attempt to block a warrant seeking emails stored outside the United States, just a week after the Department of Justice asked the U.S. Supreme Court to examine the limits of law enforcement access to foreign-stored data.

In an 11-page order, U.S. Magistrate Judge William Duffin of the Eastern District of Wisconsin wrote that just because Google stores email data at different locations around the globe at any given moment does not mean that enforcing the warrant raises “extraterritoriality” concerns.

“[E]lectronic data, especially data that exists within a free-flowing international information infrastructure, cannot be fairly equated to physical property,” the judge wrote. He added that this is “especially true” given the way Google automatically shuffles data for network efficiency. “In fact, the location of where data is stored at any given moment is so abstruse that even Google sometimes cannot determine whether the data is located inside the United States.”