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Plaintiff backs US Supreme Court finding geofence warrant unconstitutional

( April 17, 2026, 16:19 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Counsel for Okello T. Chatrie told the US Supreme Court that a warrant directing Google to search tens of millions of accounts to discern devices that might have been within a geofence goes against the Fourth Amendment because it is not issued “upon probable cause … and particularly describing the place to be searched.” They argued that the court should rule such a warrant unconstitutional, and “the government’s theories as to why location history is unprotected — many of which would apply equally to emails and documents — would open the door to warrantless rummaging through private information merely because it is in the cloud rather than on a cell phone.”See attached file. ...

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