The Appeals court issued its ruling today in Apple v. Does.
The Court held that the Stored Communications Act prevents Apple from requesting the emails from the ISP and says they must go to the account holders directly.
The Court also held that the website editors were journalists entitled to claim California's Journalist Shield to prevent them from being held in contempt for not disclosing sources and to claim the First Amendment's protections for journalists.
This is a *huge* win! Now journalists can feel safe knowing that they can protect their sources' identity no matter in which medium they choose to disseminate news (as we argued in our amicus brief).
Kudos to the good folks at EFF for their work on this case.