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· 5/10/2024

West v. Patterson-Schwartz & Associates, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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  • holding “[t]here is no inherent constitutional difference between trailing a defendant and tracking him via [cell site location information] technology”
  • holding defendant “did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the data given off by his voluntarily procured pay-as-you-go cell phone”
  • holding DEA agents tracking defendant's cell phone for three days did not rise to \a level of comprehensive tracking that would violate the Fourth Amendment\
  • holding DEA agents tracking defendant’s cell phone for three days did not rise to “a level of comprehensive tracking that would violate the Fourth Amendment”
  • holding government use of real-time cell-phone GPS data to track a suspected drug trafficker as he traveled for three days in a “motorhome that was driven on public roads” was not a search
  • holding government use of real-time cell-phone GPS data to track a suspected drug trafficker as he traveled for three days in a “motorhome that was driven on public roads” was not a search

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Adams J.

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