Apple's legal strategy: Software is free speech, and Congress should decide
Apple has attorneys on deck and court papers drawn up, ready to respond to a federal court order to help the FBI devise a way into the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone 5c. The Cupertino company has a three-pronged legal strategy, revealed in new details from insiders close to the case.
Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., Apple’s lead attorney, told the Associated Press that Apple plans to tell a federal judge in papers to be filed Friday that Congress should decide whether the company must help the FBI, not the court. Apple also plans to fight the government’s use in this case of the All Writs Act, a law from 1789 that has been interpreted for modern times to give law enforcement a lot of power to get information from companies.
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