U.S. Supreme Court,
Constitutional Law
Feb. 8, 2012
The other majority opinion in the US Supreme Court's GPS case
There may be a new exception to the Fourth Amendment's privacy protections on the horizon. B
2nd Appellate District, Division 2
Brian M. Hoffstadt
Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal
UCLA School of Law, 1995
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision last month in United States v. Jones, 10-1259 (Jan. 23, 2012) invalidating the warrantless acquisition of 28 days' worth of GPS data tracking a car's movements on public roadways is really two decisions in one, each subscribed to by a different majority of the Court.
Justice Antonin Scalia authored the majority opinion that constitutes the official holding in Jones - that the physical intrusion incident to installing a GPS tracking device o...
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