Tulsa has eye on Cash archive

But singer’s roots in Arkansas

Arkansas lost Johnny Cash to Tennessee.

Now, his archive might be heading to Oklahoma.

The Washington Post reported in October that Cash’s heirs were in talks with the George Kaiser Family Foundation about putting his archive in Tulsa, a budding mecca for Americana music historians that’s home to the archives of Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie.

“I’m not really in a position to comment on that,” Ken Levit, executive director of the foundation, said Wednesday.

Efforts to reach Cash’s daughter Rosanne Cash, through her agent, and son John Carter Cash, through his website, were unsuccessful.

But John Carter Cash forwarded a reporter’s email to Josh Matas, who works for the John R. Cash Revocable Trust.

“Various members of the Cash family own a variety

“I would oppose that. My goodness, that would be very disappointing.” GOV. ASA HUTCHINSON, who said he hadn’t heard the archive might go to Tulsa

WASHINGTON — Now that Congress has made clear that a U.S. search warrant covers emails stored overseas, the Justice Department on Friday asked the Supreme Court to moot a case involving a data demand issued to Microsoft for a drug suspect’s emails held in Ireland.

The case, argued in February, centered on whether a U.S. tech firm must comply with a court order to produce emails even if they are stored abroad — in this instance in a Dublin server.

The litigation arose out of a 1986 law, the Stored Communications Act, passed long before email became a common way to communicate and before American firms began storing large amounts of data outside the United States.

During oral arguments, some of the justices asked why they shouldn’t just wait for Congress to resolve the question. Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted that such a bill was pending.

On March 23, Congress passed, and President Donald Trump signed, the Cloud Act. The law states that a “provider of electronic communication service” shall comply with a court order for data “regardless of whether such communication, record or other information is located within or outside of the United States.”

Microsoft supported the legislation, which also provides a way to facilitate foreign law enforcement agencies’ access to data held in the United States.

The Justice Department on Friday obtained a new search warrant requiring Microsoft to turn over the emails. “Microsoft no longer has any basis for suggesting that such a warrant is impermissibly extraterritorial,” Solicitor General Noel Francisco wrote in a motion to the Supreme Court. “There is thus no longer any live dispute between the parties, and the case is now moot.”

Microsoft declined to comment Saturday.

File photo Johnny Cash poses with his wife, June Carter Cash, in this undated photo. Archivists in Arkansas were surprised to learn that Cash’s artifacts could one day reside in Tulsa, alongside those of Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan.