D.C.Cir.: Applications for orders under SCA and ECPA presumptively public judicial records

Applications for orders under the Stored Communications Act and Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 are judicial records subject to public view under the common law. Pen register records are presumptively sealed under Title III. In the Matter of the Application of Leopold to Unseal Certain Elec. Surveillance Applications and Orders, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 21026 (D.C. Cir. July 7, 2020).

The inventory of defendant’s car on his arrest and removal from the scene was according to policy (which was admitted into evidence) and reasonable. State v. Atkinson, 2020-Ohio-3522, 2020 Ohio App. LEXIS 2575 (9th Dist. June 30, 2020).*