CA11: No REP in one’s email address held by IP company under third-party doctrine

“This appeal requires us to decide whether the government needed a warrant to obtain a criminal suspect’s email address and internet protocol addresses from a third party’s business records. It also requires us to decide whether probable cause supported a warrant to search the defendant’s house and whether a sentence of life imprisonment was an unreasonable punishment for his crimes involving child pornography. We conclude that the government did not need a warrant for the third party’s business records, probable cause supported the warrant to search the defendant’s house, and the sentence was reasonable. We affirm.” United States v. Trader, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 37184 (11th Cir. Nov. 25, 2020).

This entry was posted in Reasonable expectation of privacy, Third Party Doctrine. Bookmark the permalink.

Comments are closed.