High Court Grants Certiorari In, Vacates, Remands 5 Cell Location Tracking Suits

(June 28, 2018, 2:36 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Less than a week after issuing a decision in Timothy Ivory Carpenter v. United States, No. 16-402, U.S. Sup., the U.S. Supreme Court on June 28 applied that ruling, which required a warrant issued with probable cause for the search of a suspect’s cell site location information (CSLI) records, to five similar cases, granting certiorari in each, also vacating the underlying judgments based on warrantless searches and remanding to their respective courts of appeal (Tobias O. Reed v. Virginia, No. 17-5402, U.S. Sup., 2018 U.S. LEXIS 4042; Antoine Chambers v. United States, No. 17-5692, U.S. Sup., 2018 U.S. LEXIS 4063; Anthony C. Thompson v. United States, No. 17-5964, U.S. Sup., 2018 U.S. LEXIS 4056; Gareic J. Hankston v. Texas, No. 17-6213, U.S. Sup., 2018 U.S. LEXIS 4057; Albert D. Banks v. United States, No. 17-6704, U.S. Sup., 2018 U.S. LEXIS 4050)....

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