{"id":11242,"date":"2014-04-25T13:00:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T18:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11242"},"modified":"2014-04-25T13:33:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T18:33:27","slug":"wapo-low-level-federal-judges-balking-at-law-enforcement-requests-for-electronic-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11242","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Low-level federal judges balking at law enforcement requests for electronic evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/crime\/low-level-federal-judges-balking-at-law-enforcement-requests-for-electronic-evidence\/2014\/04\/24\/eec81748-c01b-11e3-b195-dd0c1174052c_story.html\">Low-level federal judges balking at law enforcement requests for electronic evidence<\/a> by Ann E. Marimow and Craig Timberg:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Judges at the lowest levels of the federal judiciary are balking at sweeping requests by law enforcement officials for cellphone and other sensitive personal data, declaring the demands overly broad and at odds with basic constitutional rights.<\/p>\n<p>This rising assertiveness by magistrate judges \u2014 the worker bees of the federal court system \u2014 has produced rulings that elate civil libertarians and frustrate investigators, forcing them to meet or challenge tighter rules for collecting electronic evidence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Low-level federal judges balking at law enforcement requests for electronic evidence by Ann E. Marimow and Craig Timberg: Judges at the lowest levels of the federal judiciary are balking at sweeping requests by law enforcement officials for cellphone and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11242\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25,13,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones","category-e-mail","category-ecpa","category-warrant-requirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11243,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11242\/revisions\/11243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}