TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Nov 30, 2017

As the U.S. Supreme Court considered whether police need a warrant supported by probable cause to obtain cellphone location data, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch yesterday appeared to have sided with liberal justices, the ABA Journal reports. Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Anthony M. Kennedy appeared to lean most towards agreeing with the government that a warrant wasn’t needed in the case Carpenter v. United States, while Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared to most favor protections on cellphone data.