{"id":24176,"date":"2016-10-28T14:01:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T19:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24176"},"modified":"2016-10-28T14:01:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T19:01:12","slug":"wapo-the-volokh-conspiracy-the-fourth-amendment-and-email-preservation-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24176","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: The Volokh Conspiracy: The Fourth Amendment and email preservation letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: The Volokh Conspiracy: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2016\/10\/28\/the-fourth-amendment-and-email-preservation-letters\/?utm_term=.18956ed89be2\">The Fourth Amendment and email preservation letters<\/a> by Orin Kerr:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When investigators learn that a target of a criminal case has an email account with a known address, it is common for them to send a preservation letter to the email provider. A preservation letter tells the provider to preserve the contents of the account because legal process may be on the way. This post considers a question: When does the use of preservation letters violate the Fourth Amendment? I think a significant amount of its use raises serious constitutional problems. This post explains why, and it offers some thoughts on how defense counsel can raise the issue in court.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: The Volokh Conspiracy: The Fourth Amendment and email preservation letters by Orin Kerr:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-mail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24176","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=24176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24177,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24176\/revisions\/24177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}