{"id":62713,"date":"2026-01-07T18:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62713"},"modified":"2026-01-07T18:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:28:10","slug":"ca9-in-school-seizure-of-plaintiffs-cell-phone-for-30-minutes-was-not-unreasonable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62713","title":{"rendered":"CA9: In school seizure of plaintiff\u2019s cell phone for 30 minutes was not unreasonable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In school seizure of plaintiff\u2019s cell phone for 30 minutes was not unreasonable and \u201cnot excessively intrusive.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov\/datastore\/memoranda\/2026\/01\/06\/23-16169.pdf\">McGuire v. Roseville Joint Union High Sch. Dist.<\/a>, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 172 (9th Cir. Jan. 6, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cValdivia counters that [the officer\u2019s] inability to articulate a specific crime he suspected had been, or was about to be, committed means he lacked reasonable and articulable suspicion. \u2026 Even if Porsch was required to identify a specific crime, he did so here.\u201d Valdivia v. Porsch, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 158 (8th Cir. Jan. 6, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The search warrant for this video security system produced records showing that video files, likely of a shooting, had been deleted. Simandl v. Commonwealth, 2026 Va. App. LEXIS 15 (Jan. 6, 2026) (unpublished).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In school seizure of plaintiff\u2019s cell phone for 30 minutes was not unreasonable and \u201cnot excessively intrusive.\u201d McGuire v. Roseville Joint Union High Sch. Dist., 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 172 (9th Cir. Jan. 6, 2026). \u201cValdivia counters that [the officer\u2019s] &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62713\">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":[5,35,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-school-searches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62713","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=62713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62714,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62713\/revisions\/62714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}