Lauri Love’s Lawyer Says U.S. Won’t Appeal Extradition Ruling

The U.S. abandoned efforts to extradite British computer activist Lauri Love, according to his lawyer, prompting a London court to remove his bail conditions on Feb. 19.

Two weeks after a High Court judge ruled Love shouldn’t be tried abroad, his lawyer Ben Cooper told a magistrates court that U.S. authorities had decided not to appeal the decision and “conceded his discharge.”

Love was arrested in the U.K. in 2013 and accused by the U.S. of stealing “massive amounts” of confidential data from government agencies and departments including the U.S. Army and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency. In his ruling, ...