Supreme Court Declines To Hear Cellphone 4th Amendment Case
The Supreme Court declined to hear a potential test case (see 1509010052) from Florida on whether police need a warrant before seeking cell tower data. Quartavius Davis was convicted of taking part in a string of 2010 robberies around Miami,…
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based in part on data collected from his cellphone. The justices declined to hear Davis’ appeal of a decision by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that rejected his claims, in an order released Monday. “In this appeal, we are called on to decide whether the court order … compelling the production of a third-party telephone company’s business records containing historical cell tower location information, violated Davis’s Fourth Amendment rights and was thus unconstitutional,” the 11th Circuit held in its May decision. “We hold it did not and was not.” The case was Davis v. U.S.