SAN FRANCISCO — Apple Inc. has brought on a team from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher that includes former Solicitor General Theodore Olson to help fight a court order forcing the company to unlock a passcode-protected iPhone belonging one of the perpetrators of last year’s mass shooting in San Bernardino.
The Gibson Dunn team of constitutional law heavyweights joins the high-stakes privacy test after Apple CEO Tim Cook this week publicly vowed to fight the ruling. U.S. Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym in Riverside on Tuesday signed off on a government request calling for Apple to develop software to defeat a security feature on the phone that erases data after 10 consecutive unsuccessful passcode entries. The ruling came without briefing by lawyers for Apple, which has not yet filed court papers responding to the order.
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