{"id":60946,"date":"2025-04-30T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60946"},"modified":"2025-05-03T15:58:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T20:58:03","slug":"ca4-en-banc-geofence-warrant-was-in-good-faith-no-decision-on-merits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60946","title":{"rendered":"CA4 (en banc): Geofence warrant was in good faith; no decision on merits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Fourth Circuit dodges deciding the merits of geofence warrants by going with good faith in a per curiam virtually summary affirmance with 124 pages of concurring and dissenting opinions. Having heard the excellent, spirited oral argument, this was where it was going. It\u2019s always easier to decide good faith than the merits, and the law remains murky. The question has to be decided sometime, or was that the point of Leon? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/united-states-of-america-v-chatrie-on-rehearing-en-banc.pdf\">United States v. Chatrie<\/a>, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 10418 (4th Cir. Apr. 30, 2025) (en banc). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CNS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/fourth-circuit-kicks-can-on-constitutionality-of-geofence-warrants\/\">Fourth Circuit kicks can on constitutionality of geofence warrants<\/a> by Joe Dodson (\u201cSome of the circuit judges expressed frustration with the en banc panel&#8217;s unwillingness to address whether accessing location history through Google violates a person&#8217;s right to privacy.\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reason: <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2025\/05\/02\/the-fourth-circuits-geofencing-case-ends-not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper\/\">The Fourth Circuit&#8217;s Geofencing Case Ends Not With a Bang But A Whimper<\/a> by Orin S. Kerr (\u201cFifteen judges produce eight separate opinions\u2014but no view gets a majority.\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fourth Circuit dodges deciding the merits of geofence warrants by going with good faith in a per curiam virtually summary affirmance with 124 pages of concurring and dissenting opinions. Having heard the excellent, spirited oral argument, this was where &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60946\">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":[130,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geofence","category-good-faith-exception"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60946","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=60946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60953,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60946\/revisions\/60953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}