Microsoft Corp. v. United States
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Microsoft Corp. v. United States is a landmark legal case in which the U.S. government’s authority to compel a technology company to produce customer data stored on foreign servers under U.S. law was contested.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Microsoft Corp. v. United States canonical | 1 |
| Second Circuit ruled in favor of Microsoft | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3173810 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Microsoft Corp. v. United States Context triple: [Stored Communications Act, subjectOf, Microsoft Corp. v. United States]
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A.
United States v. AT&T
United States v. AT&T was a landmark antitrust lawsuit in which the U.S. government forced the breakup of the Bell System telecommunications monopoly in the early 1980s.
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B.
MCI v. AT&T
MCI v. AT&T was a landmark U.S. antitrust lawsuit in the telecommunications industry that challenged AT&T’s monopoly and helped open the long-distance market to competition.
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C.
United States v. Edward Snowden
United States v. Edward Snowden is the U.S. criminal case in which former NSA contractor Edward Snowden was charged for leaking classified surveillance documents, leading to international debates over government secrecy and privacy.
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D.
United States v. Washington Post Co.
United States v. Washington Post Co. is a landmark 1971 U.S. Supreme Court case that, alongside New York Times Co. v. United States, upheld the press’s right to publish the Pentagon Papers against prior restraint by the government.
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E.
Gelbard v. United States
Gelbard v. United States is a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court case that addressed whether grand jury witnesses could refuse to answer questions based on the government's alleged illegal use of wiretap evidence.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Microsoft Corp. v. United States Target entity description: Microsoft Corp. v. United States is a landmark legal case in which the U.S. government’s authority to compel a technology company to produce customer data stored on foreign servers under U.S. law was contested.
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A.
United States v. AT&T
United States v. AT&T was a landmark antitrust lawsuit in which the U.S. government forced the breakup of the Bell System telecommunications monopoly in the early 1980s.
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B.
MCI v. AT&T
MCI v. AT&T was a landmark U.S. antitrust lawsuit in the telecommunications industry that challenged AT&T’s monopoly and helped open the long-distance market to competition.
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C.
United States v. Edward Snowden
United States v. Edward Snowden is the U.S. criminal case in which former NSA contractor Edward Snowden was charged for leaking classified surveillance documents, leading to international debates over government secrecy and privacy.
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D.
United States v. Washington Post Co.
United States v. Washington Post Co. is a landmark 1971 U.S. Supreme Court case that, alongside New York Times Co. v. United States, upheld the press’s right to publish the Pentagon Papers against prior restraint by the government.
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E.
Gelbard v. United States
Gelbard v. United States is a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court case that addressed whether grand jury witnesses could refuse to answer questions based on the government's alleged illegal use of wiretap evidence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Supreme Court case
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data privacy case ⓘ extraterritoriality case ⓘ |
| CLOUDActEffect | amended Stored Communications Act to address cross-border data access ⓘ |
| CLOUDActFullName | Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act ⓘ |
| concernsInstrument | warrant issued under the Stored Communications Act ⓘ |
| concernsIssue |
cross-border access to electronic communications content
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extraterritorial reach of the Stored Communications Act ⓘ limits of U.S. warrants in foreign jurisdictions ⓘ privacy rights of users whose data is stored abroad ⓘ whether U.S. law enforcement can compel disclosure of data stored on foreign servers ⓘ |
| concernsStatute |
18 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq.
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18 U.S.C. § 2703 ⓘ CLOUD Act ⓘ Stored Communications Act ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| dateArguedBeforeSupremeCourt | 2018-02-27 ⓘ |
| docketNumber | 17-2 ⓘ |
| hasParty |
Microsoft
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surface form:
Microsoft Corporation
United States of America ⓘ |
| impact |
influenced global debate on government access to data stored abroad
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prompted legislative clarification of law enforcement access to cloud data ⓘ |
| involvesCompanyRole | Microsoft as email service provider ⓘ |
| involvesCourt |
Supreme Court of the United States
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United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ⓘ United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ⓘ |
| involvesLocation | data center in Ireland ⓘ |
| involvesTechnology |
cloud computing
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email services ⓘ remote data storage ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | federal ⓘ |
| legalArea |
conflict of laws
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criminal procedure ⓘ data protection law ⓘ electronic communications law ⓘ extraterritorial application of U.S. law ⓘ |
| lowerCourtDecision |
Microsoft Corp. v. United States
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Second Circuit ruled in favor of Microsoft
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| lowerCourtHolding | Stored Communications Act warrant does not apply extraterritorially to data stored abroad ⓘ |
| partyType | technology company vs. federal government ⓘ |
| reasonForMootness | enactment of the CLOUD Act ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
digital privacy
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extraterritorial jurisdiction ⓘ law enforcement access to encrypted or remote data ⓘ mutual legal assistance treaties ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
government access to customer data stored on foreign servers
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scope of U.S. warrants for electronic communications ⓘ |
| SupremeCourtDisposition | dismissed as moot ⓘ |
| yearArguedBeforeSupremeCourt | 2018 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Microsoft Corp. v. United States Description of subject: Microsoft Corp. v. United States is a landmark legal case in which the U.S. government’s authority to compel a technology company to produce customer data stored on foreign servers under U.S. law was contested.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Microsoft Corp. v. United States
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lowerCourtDecision
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Microsoft Corp. v. United States
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Second Circuit ruled in favor of Microsoft