“Respect Irish sovereignty,” Ireland has told a court that is hearing a dispute over access for U.S. law enforcement to email communications held by Microsoft in Dublin.
“Ireland respectfully asserts that foreign courts are obliged to respect Irish sovereignty (and that of all other sovereign states) whether or not Ireland is a party or intervener in the proceedings before them,” according to an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief filed Tuesday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.