Magistrate Judge: If Geofence Warrants Are Unconstitutional, So Are Cell Tower Dumps
The Fifth Circuit’s unlikely decision to side with a constitutional right that wasn’t the Second Amendment is starting to trickle down to the lower levels of the federal court system. Last August, the Fifth Circuit bucked its own cop-friendly trend by ruling that geofence warrants — warrants that demand massive amounts of geolocation data when […]
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