Reason: CBP Agents Held This U.S. Citizen for Hours Until He Agreed To Let Them Search His Electronic Devices

Reason: CBP Agents Held This U.S. Citizen for Hours Until He Agreed To Let Them Search His Electronic Devices by Jacob Sullum (“A federal lawsuit argues that the agency’s policy of perusing travelers’ personal data without a warrant or probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment.”). It’s Chavarria v. US DHS, and the relief sought:

A. A declaratory judgment, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2201, holding CBP’s and ICE’s policies authorizing warrantless, suspicionless searches of U.S. citizens’ electronic devices, embodied in the CBP and ICE Directives, and associated promulgating and implementing materials issued by the agencies, unconstitutional;
B. An order, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 706(2), holding unlawful and setting aside the CBP Directive and the ICE Directive;
C. An injunction, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2202, Federal Rule of Procedure 65, and the Court’s inherent equitable powers, prohibiting Defendants from performing warrantless searches of Plaintiff ’s electronic devices ….