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Data Law Insights
Groundbreaking Ruling By the Supreme Court Finds for Digital Privacy
By 1560210056-httpswww.crowelldatalaw.com
In an unexpectedly sweeping opinion, a nearly united Supreme Court today recognized the fourth amendment’s protection for digital privacy. Chief Justice Roberts’ opinion in Riley v. California is grounded on the…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Notable SCOTUS consensus that Fourth Amendment requires a warrant for cell phone searches
Main June 25, 2014Notable SCOTUS consensus that Fourth Amendment requires a warrant for cell phone searchesThe Supreme Court handed down this morning its last big criminal justice decisions of this…
The Right Coast
Supreme Court: Police Need Warrants to Search Cellphone Data – WSJ
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday police must almost always obtain a warrant before searching mobile devices seized when arresting someone, extending constitutional privacy protections to the increasingly vast amounts…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Unanimous Supreme Court Requires Warrant for Cell Phone Search Incident to Arrest
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolA unanimous Supreme Court today ruled in Riley v. California that officers must obtain a warrant before searching an arrrestee's cell phone incident to arrest. …
The Faculty Lounge
Cell Tower Data: Circuit Court Split on Search Issue
The 11th Circuit held that a defendant's cell phone tower data (i.e., general location of where the defendant was on a certain day and time) obtained by the police from…
Supreme Court Update
Bond v. United States (12-158)
We're back to bring you last week's decision in Bond v. United States (12-158), the case of the jilted wife-cum-accused chemical terrorist; and the news that the Court refused to…
Ohio Appellate Insights
What’s on their Minds? Sufficiency of Affidavit in Support of Warrant to Search Computer. State of Ohio v. Nicholas Castagnola.
Update: On April 28, 2015, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here. On May 28, 2014, the Supreme Court of…
Ohio Appellate Insights
Oral Argument Preview: Is a Deficient Affidavit Grounds to Exclude Evidence of Child Pornography Found Pursuant to a Search Warrant? State of Ohio v. Nicholas Castagnola.
Update: On April 28, 2015, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here. Read the analysis of the oral argument here.…
Nashville Criminal Law Report
The Erosion of The Fourth Amendment Continues
By Rob McKinney
The erosion of the Fourth Amendment is continuing at a rapid pace. I don't know which will happen first.The disappearance of the Fourth Amendment or the melting of the North…
Data Counsel
Big Data and Power Asymmetries: Recent White House Report Addresses Opportunities and Challenges Created by Increasingly Interconnected Technologies
By Pamela Jones Harbour, Erik Raven-Hansen, William W. Hellmuth
In the latest round of reactions to the Edward Snowden leak, on May 1, 2014, the Obama Administration called for the United States to take a leading role in developing…