Big 4th Amendment Win In The United State Supreme Court
Today the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously held that attaching a GPS device to a vehicle and using that GPS device to monitor the movements of the vehicle constitutes a “search” under the Fourth Amendment. Read the decision in United States v. Jones, here. This decision was one of the most anticipated cases in this Supreme Court term and had many civil liberties proponents holding their breath. Associate Justice Antonin Scalia said that the government’s installation of a GPS device, and its use to monitor the vehicle’s movements, constitutes a search, meaning that a warrant is required. “By attaching the device to the Jeep” that Jones was using, “officers encroached on a protected area,” Scalia wrote. All nine justices agreed that the placement of the GPS on the Jeep violated the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable search and seizure. Justice Samuel Alito also wrote a concurring opinion in which he said the court should have gone further and dealt with GPS tracking of wireless devices, like mobile phones. He was joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan.
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