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The failure of prosecutors to convince a majority of the judges to rehear the case leaves the July ruling in place. In that ruling, the court said that the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, a law passed before the widespread use of e-mail, instant messages and Internet-based social networks, doesn’t permit courts to require U.S.-based Internet service providers to turn over customer e-mails stored on servers outside the country.
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