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In a major decision federal #FifthCircuit #CourtofAppeals held that #geofence #warrants are “categorically prohibited by the #FourthAmendment.”
Court determined under Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Carpenter v. United States, individuals have reasonable expectation of #privacy in #location data implicated by #geofencewarrants.
Second, court found that even though investigators seek warrants for geofence location data, these searches are inherently #unconstitutional.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/federal-appeals-court-finds-geofence-warrants-are-categorically-unconstitutional

Actually, this is the second time the Supreme Court has slapped down the Fifth Circuit on standing.

(The first was FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the misepristone case)

Let's hope the Fifth Circuit will temper its lawlessness now.

#SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #FifthCircuit #law #lawFedi #lawProf #standing #FifthCircuit #Speech