Microsoft, Law Firm Cloud Files Access Row Goes to Arbitration

A Houston criminal defense firm won an appeal sending to arbitration its dispute with Microsoft Corp. over being locked out of a cloud storage account that allegedly included child pornography related to a case being handled by the firm.

Though the parties’ dispute had started in court, where Turnbull Legal Group PLLC initially sought injunctive relieve to regain access to its OneDrive account, a Texas appeals court said Thursday that proceedings hadn’t gone so far as to allow Microsoft to prove the firm “substantially invoked” the judicial process and couldn’t opt out.

Turnbull’s request for injunctive relief doesn’t mean they ...