{"id":64821,"date":"2026-09-19T11:26:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64821"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:27:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:27:34","slug":"ca2-warrantless-cell-phone-border-search-valid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64821","title":{"rendered":"CA2: Warrantless cell phone border search valid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defendant, a permanent resident, was suspected of a multimillion dollar fraud with false identities. He was stopped at JFK coming back and his phone was seized and searched helping make the case against him. No warrant was needed for the border search of this cell phone. <a href=\"https:\/\/ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov\/decisions\/OPN\/24-960_complete_opn.pdf\">United States v. Alisigwe<\/a>, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 28444 (2d Cir. Sep. 17, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plaintiff\u2019s complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief is disclaimed not to be a domestic relations appeal from state to federal court. It\u2019s barred by abstention and the Rooker-Feldman doctrine. Bonsignore v. N.Y. State Dep&#8217;t of Taxation &amp; Fin., 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 208666 (S.D.N.Y. July 21, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plaintiff\u2019s interactions with the Fort Smith animal control officers with an alleged arrest without probable cause doesn\u2019t rise to the level of serious bad faith to avoid Younger abstention. Steffy v. City of Fort Smith, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 210512 (W.D. Ark. Sep. 17, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant, a permanent resident, was suspected of a multimillion dollar fraud with false identities. He was stopped at JFK coming back and his phone was seized and searched helping make the case against him. No warrant was needed for the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64821\">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":[121,10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstention","category-border-search","category-cell-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64821","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=64821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64822,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64821\/revisions\/64822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}