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Search Warrants Required for GPS Devices

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… that police put on your vehicle, according to the Washington Post. I welcome this ruling, and am very pleased to see it was unanimous.

In fact, I think the government agencies who thought they could get by with this should be ashamed of themselves, and the a unanimous court ruling shows how far outside “reasonable” they were.

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    Jeremy Pierce

    That’s not at all what the Supreme Court said. The Washington Post has it completely wrong. They unanimously said it counts as a search under the fourth amendment. The majority specifically did not address the question of what sort of search is reasonable or unreasonable in this context. Four justices wanted to and said what their views would be (it would be to disallow it long-term cases like this but perhaps not in very short-term cases), but the majority refused to address the question, because the lower courts hadn’t considered it yet.

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