&gt; There&#x27;s the other &quot;but with this, we&#x27;ll have to do a bunch of phones&quot; argument... is there a term for being overburdened with writs from the court?<p>Yes, it is called &quot;burdensome&quot;. It very well may be ruled too burdensome for them to unlock one specific phone, let alone all the others that have piled up. That is where the case was as of a couple days ago, with apple being asked by the court whether the request would be too unreasonably burdensome for them to comply.