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U.S. Supreme Court

Feb. 23, 2012

Justices take a second shot at GPS issue

In U.S. Supreme Court action Tuesday, the justices vacated a 9th Circuit ruling in a GPS case, backed arbitration over litigation, dialed back prisoners Miranda rights and handed down other orders.


By Robert Iafolla


Daily Journal Staff Writer

Second shot for GPS case in 9th


Citing its ruling last month that tracking a suspect's vehicle with a GPS device constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday wiped out a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that had authorized such surveillance.


The circuit will reconsider Juan Pineda-Moreno's attempt to suppress evidence tha...

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