{"id":62296,"date":"2025-11-11T10:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62296"},"modified":"2025-11-11T10:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:03:07","slug":"e-d-cal-a-cell-phone-number-in-sw-papers-isnt-reason-to-seal-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62296","title":{"rendered":"E.D.Cal.: A cell phone number in SW papers isn&#8217;t reason to seal them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The government doesn\u2019t provide justification for sealing this search warrant application merely because there are cell phone number in it. It is presumptively a public record. In re Matter of Application by United States for Search Warrant to Search, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 218242 (E.D. Cal. Nov. 5, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>California law provides a mechanism to challenge searches, and failure to do so here was Stone barred. Bryson v. Madden, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 221586 (S.D. Cal. Nov. 10, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s discovery request for video of the controlled buy that led to the warrant wasn\u2019t timely, and the court could affirm on that basis alone. On the merits, however, it is speculative that it\u2019s Brady material. United States v. Hill, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 29357 (11th Cir. Nov. 7, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government doesn\u2019t provide justification for sealing this search warrant application merely because there are cell phone number in it. It is presumptively a public record. In re Matter of Application by United States for Search Warrant to Search, 2025 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62296\">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":[140,126,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discovery","category-issue-preclusion","category-warrant-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62296","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=62296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62297,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62296\/revisions\/62297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}