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ByTamiAbdollah The Associated Press WASHINGTON Calling a New York judge's ruling "an unprecedented limitation" on judicial authority, the Justice Department asked a Brooklyn federal court on Monday to reverse a de- cision that said Apple Inc. wasn't required to pry open a locked iPhone. The government's 45- page brief comes a week after U.S. Magistrate Judge James Orenstein issued his decision in a routine drug case, dealing a blow to the Obama administration in its battle with the tech gi- ant over privacy and pub- lic safety. Government lawyers called their Monday re- quest routine, arguing that the case is not about asking Apple to do anything new, or to create a "master key" to access all iPhones. Apple has opposed the govern- ment's move in a separate case involving the shooter who killed 14 people Dec. 2 in San Bernardino, Cali- fornia. Apple's pushback has fu- eled a national debate over digital privacy rights and national security. Apple had previously assailed the gov- ernment's move, saying U.S. officials were seeking "dan- gerous power" through the courts and trampling on the company's constitutional rights. The Brooklyn case in- volves a government request that is less onerous for Ap- ple and its phone technol- ogy. The so-called extrac- tion technique works on an older iPhone operating sys- tem and has been used doz- ens of times before to assist investigators. The California and New York cases both hinge on the government's interpre- tation of the centuries-old All Writs Act. The new cases present another challenge for federal courts, which have to sort out how a law that is used to help govern- ment investigators squares with privacy and encryption in the digital age. The government asserted in court papers Monday that Orenstein's ruling in New York is "an unprecedented limitation on" judicial au- thority and that his legal "analysis goes far afield of the circumstances of this case." It also stated that the government "does not have any adequate alternatives" to obtaining Apple's as- sistance because attempt- ing to guess the passcode would trigger the phone's auto-erase security feature. Federal prosecutors cited several examples in which Apple has extracted data from a locked device un- der the law, including a child exploitation case in New York, a narcotics case in Florida and another ex- ploitation case in Washing- ton state. Apple responded Mon- day: "Judge Orenstein ruled the FBI's request would 'thoroughly undermine fundamental principles of the Constitution' and we agree. We share the judge's concern that misuse of the All Writs Act would start us down a slippery slope that threatens everyone's safety and privacy." In October, Orenstein invited Apple to challenge the government's use of the 1789 law that compelled the company to help the govern- ment obtain iPhone data in criminal cases. Since then, lawyers say Apple has op- posed requests to help ex- tract information from over a dozen iPhones in Califor- nia, Illinois, Massachusetts and New York. In the California case, of- ficials are looking for access to the phone used by Syed Farook but owned by San Bernardino County, where he was a health inspector. Federal investigators say the attack by Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, was at least partly inspired by the Islamic State group. The couple died later in a gun battle with police. FBI Director James Comey told a House judi- ciary panel last week that the government was "ask- ing Apple to take the vi- cious guard dog away and let us pick the lock" on the iPhone. Should Apple create the specialized software to allow the FBI to hack the iPhone in California, Comey said it would take 26 min- utes to do what's known as a brute force attack — test- ing multiple passcodes in quick, computational suc- cession. Apple has said that be- ing forced to extract infor- mation from an iPhone, no matter the circumstance, "could threaten the trust between Apple and its cus- tomers and substantially tarnish the Apple brand." NEW YORK USappealsrulingonaccessingdatainiPhonecase JULIEJACOBSON—THEASSOCIATEDPRESSFILE A New York police officer stands outside the Apple Store on Fi h Avenue while monitoring a demonstration in New York. By Mark Gillispie and Lauran Neergaard The Associated Press CLEVELAND The recipient of the nation's first uterus transplant said Monday that she prayed for years to be able to bear a child, and is grateful to the de- ceased donor's family and surgeons who've given her that chance. Doctors at the Cleveland Clinic said Monday that the 26-year-old woman is recov- ering well after receiving the uterus late last month. The experimental surgery is part of a new frontier in transplantation that, if it works, might be an alter- native for some of the thou- sands of women unable to have children because they were born without a uterus or lost it to disease. The woman, identified only as Lindsey, appeared briefly at a news conference with her husband. She said she already is a mother to three "beautiful little boys" adopted through foster care and that she was told when she was 16 that she wouldn't be able to bear children. "From that moment on, I've prayed that God would allow me the opportunity to experience pregnancy," she said. "And here we are to- day, at the beginning of that journey." The woman must wait at least a year to ensure the new uterus is healthy enough to try getting preg- nant through in vitro fertil- ization, using embryos fro- zen ahead of the operation. To monitor the transplant, she will undergo monthly examinations. Other countries have tried womb transplants. Sweden reported the first successful birth in 2014, with a total of five healthy babies from nine trans- plants so far. The trans- plant team at the Cleveland Clinic, which has been ex- ploring the possibility of performing uterus trans- plants for 10 years, trained with the Swedish surgeons. The hospital has screened more than 250 women to identify 10 who qualify for the clinical trial, those lack- ing a functional uterus but with healthy ovaries that produceeggs.They must un- derstand the risks — compli- cations from abdominal sur- gery, plus the possibility that the transplant will fail — and that it's experimental. "We must remember a uterine transplant is not just about a surgery and about moving a uterus from here to there. It's about hav- ing a healthy baby," said Cleveland Clinic surgeon Dr. Rebecca Flyckt. One concern, both med- ically and ethically, is the effect that necessary anti- rejection drugs have on a developing fetus, the doc- tors said Monday. Dr. An- dreas Tzakis, a trans- plant surgeon who is lead- ing the study, said many women who've had kidney transplants have delivered healthy babies while taking anti-rejection drugs. Births will be by cesar- ean section. The trans- planted uterus will be re- moved after the woman has had one or two babies so that she won't need those drugs the rest of her life. The United Network for Organ Sharing, which over- sees U.S. transplants, said Baylor University in Dallas and Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital have also been approved for uterine transplants. A uterus donation re- quires a separate consent fromadeceaseddonor'sfam- ily, like donations for other new procedures such as hand and face transplants, said UNOS chief medical of- ficer Dr. David Klassen. The donor for the Cleve- land Clinic transplant was described as a healthy woman in her 30s who'd had children and had died suddenly. Sweden has used living donors for trans- plants there, but the Cleve- land Clinic trial, to avoid any risk to a donor, de- cided to start with donors who have died. The Cleveland Clinic pa- tient, Lindsey, said she was grateful to that donor's fam- ily. "They have provided me with a gift that I will never be able to repay." Dr. Mats Brannstrom of Sahlgrenska University Hospital at the University of Gothenburg said the Cleve- land surgery marked the 13th transplant worldwide. According to Brannstrom, Saudi Arabia and Turkey previously reported at- tempts and China per- formed one in November, but Sweden so far has the only births. 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