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Justices Say GPS Tracker Violated Privacy Rights

Date: January 23, 2012

Author: Adam Liptak

QUOTE: The Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously that the police violated the Constitution when they placed a Global Positioning System tracking device on a suspect’s car and monitored its movements for 28 days. A set of overlapping opinions in the case collectively suggested that a majority of the justices are prepared to apply broad privacy principles to bring the Fourth Amendment’s ban on unreasonable searches into the digital age...

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Key People:

• Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., Esq.
• Chief Justice John G. Roberts Esq.
• Walter E. Dellinger III, Esq.
• Justice Antonin Gregory Scalia
• Chief Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg Esq.
• Judge Sonia Sotomayor Esq.
• Vernon Herron
• Justice Clarence Thomas
• Justice Anthony M. Kennedy

Key Organizations:

• New York Times Company

Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Abstract Principles
  • Information

• Law & Justice
  • Civil Rights / Equal Protection
    • Fair Trials
      • Evidence / Search & Seizures
    • Privacy: Other
      • Anonymity/Surveillance/Identity Theft/Confidentiality
  • Criminal Law
    • Criminal Justice System
      • Police / Policing

• North America
  • United States of America/USA

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