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Fourth Amendment news--And the public, as usual, has not been paying attention

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

For a little over two weeks now, ever since the press got wind of an oral argument in the Third Circuit about a cell phone tracking information appeal by the government (see prior post: Fourth Amendment news--CA3 to hear argument on accessing cell phone location data), the blogosphere has been inundated with articles about the "Obama administration's" [it is his Justice Department, after all] efforts to get this information in a case involving drugs. The bloggers seemed outraged at the administration making this effort to get cell phone tracking information without a showing of probable cause under the Fourth Amendment. Or does the Fourth Amendment or any statute require it? Where have all these people and this outrage been for the last four and a half years? Clearly not paying attention...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on February 22, 2010 (boomark / email).