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> 1) There is no search warrant in the case in question, but an order under the All Writs act.

I was under the impression that there is a search warrant that the government has secured to search the phone, and an order under the All Writs Act dragooning Apple into writing custom software to support the search authorized by the warrant.




Right, right. By "the case in question," I meant FBI v. Apple (ie, the case out of which the court order came, whatever it ends up being called).


So what Apple is fighting against is the "dragooning"




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