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Government,
Civil Litigation

Aug. 17, 2017

LA attorney representing web host company against U.S. demand for site visitor information

DreamHost put Raymond O. Aghaian of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP on the case after receiving Department of Justice email.

Three weeks before a Trump administration request for information about visitors to an inauguration protest website made international headlines, an assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. foreshadowed the looming battle in an email.

“I sent a courtesy copy of the warrant to you last week, and you’ve had the data preserved since January,” John W. Borchert wrote to an employee with the web hosting company DreamHost LLC, which is b...

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