The Department of Justice has filed a motion to compel Apple to comply with a federal court order to break into the iPhone owned by a terrorist. Prosecutors went to unusual lengths to emphasize that the case was not setting a significant precedent

The order, issued earlier this week, would compel Apple to create software that would assist the Federal Bureau of Investigation in breaking into a phone used by one of the perpetrators in a Dec. 2 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., by Tashfeen Malik and Syed Farook.