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NYC Judge Rules Twitter Must Hand Over Deleted Tweets of OWS Activist

He's ruled that before

Reason Staff | 9.11.2012 1:15 PM


Twitter lost a key legal battle yesterday as it tries to fight a court order to release a user's tweets in an Occupy Wall Street protest investigation.

An appeals court in New York said Twitter cannot stall a criminal case against Malcolm Harris, a protester arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge last October, while the company appeals a judge's order for the release of tweets related to the case.

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