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It's an interesting one. The contents of the tweets (as long as they were not Direct Messages) were and are still public, despite what Twitter seem to be saying.
If you know the tweet numbers you can still find them. I think that the current cutoff for easily findable tweets (i.e. those that you can just click through on someone username to see) is about 2 weeks. After that, hunting them becomes a whole lot harder, you have to go back tweet by tweet to find them, but they are all there, and there is software avaliable for you to personally log and store the tweet numbers for any search at the time.
Twitter are making a program availiable so that if you pay them mucho dollero they will let you have access to the whole database in an easily searchable form, but I've not seen more on that for a little while, but I can't see it not going ahead. The costs I've seen would be too great for personal users, but not for large companies looking for marketing data, who don't want to have to store the firehose themselves, which could bring about data protection issues and stuff.
The other data that they want, the IP data and so on, well, that's not something that is publically avaliable, so thats a bit more tricky. I suspect that, like in so many other cases, the Judge may not quite understand the nauances in the data being requested.