A federal judge in California has vacated a temporary restraining order that directed Google Inc. to deactivate a Gmail account in response to a complaint filed by the Rocky Mountain Bank of Wyoming.

In an order issued Friday, Judge James Ware, of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, also vacated a hearing on the case which had been scheduled for today. The decision came after a motion had been jointly filed by Google and the bank asking the court to quash the restraining order.

Rocky Mountain Bank had mistakenly sent a file containing confidential account information belonging to 1,325 of its customers to the Gmail address in August. When the bank discovered the error, it immediately sent an e-mail to the Gmail address asking the recipient to delete the e-mail and the attachment. The bank also asked the recipient to contact the bank to discuss what actions had been taken to comply with the bank's request.

When it received no reply, the bank sent an e-mail to Google asking whether the Gmail account was active and what it could do to prevent unauthorized disclosure of the leaked information.