The Hill: Supreme Court pressed to rule on police access to cellphone data

The Hill: Supreme Court pressed to rule on police access to cellphone data by Lydia Wheeler:

Legal watchdogs are calling on the Supreme Court to weigh in on whether it is constitutional for police to have access to telephone records without first obtaining a search warrant.

The Constitution Project, Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Brennan Center for Justice, the Center for Democracy & Technology and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers filed an amicus brief Monday in support of Quartavious Davis, a Florida man who is asking the Supreme Court to hear his appeal.

The case stems from the lawsuit Davis brought against the United States after he was convicted of seven armed robberies in 2010. Police used his cellphone records to place him in the vicinity of six of the seven robberies in the Miami area.

Davis argued that police having warrantless access to his cellphone data violated the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable search and seizure.

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, however, disagreed and sided with the government.

Pressed”? How is the SCOTUS “pressed” to do anything other than Bush v. Gore?

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