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Re:Apple Encryption Engineers, If Ordered to Unlock iPhone, ... by dogecoinbase on Thursday March 17, 2016 @07:24PM (#11308481)
Impossible to know without the actual employment documents, but also curious if the DoJ could be considered a tortfeasor for disrupting an employment contract in that case.
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Re:Apple Encryption Engineers, If Ordered to Unlock iPhone, ... by ridgeguy on Thursday March 17, 2016 @09:55PM (#11309290)
My guess would be that some stretch of sovereign immunity [1] would shield DoJ.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity

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