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The US Department of Justice has made a fresh bid to obtain emails stored in Ireland by Microsoft, filing a motion to dismiss an existing case in the Supreme Court and issuing a fresh warrant to the company seeking the release of the emails.

Efforts by US law enforcement agencies to gain access to email stored overseas by American companies have been resolved through a piece of legislation tagged onto a massive spending bill which was signed into law by US President Donald Trump.

A bill which will enable courts to decide cases in which the US Government seeks access to data stored abroad by American companies is unlikely to pass through Congress in time to resolve a case involving Microsoft.