Constitutional Law
Sep. 14, 2026
"Reverse Warrants" under the Fourth Amendment
As courts grapple with reverse warrants for digital data, they must decide whether longstanding Fourth Amendment rules should apply differently simply because digital is different.
2nd Appellate District, Division 5
Brian M. Hoffstadt
Presiding Justice
California Court of Appeal
UCLA School of Law, 1995
Last term, the United States Supreme Court in Chatrie v. United States, 146 S. Ct. 2193 (2026), added another layer to its precedent defining how the Fourth Amendment applies to digital data.
The first case to tackle this topic was Riley v. California, 573 U.S. 373 (2014). In Riley, the court held that the usual rule--that police can conduct a warrantless search of any object on a person incident to a lawful arrest, United States ...
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