In re United States for an Order for Authorization to Obtain Location Data Concerning an At & T Cellular Telephone

ORDER

MICHAEL P. MILLS, District Judge.

This cause comes before the court on the motion of the government, appealing the Magistrate Judge’s denial of its application for a warrant, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2703(c)(1)(A) of the Stored Communications Act (SCA), which sought to compel the disclosure of cell phone records to be used as part of an ongoing drug trafficking investigation in this district. The warrant which the government sought to obtain was a “prospective” one, which would have compelled phone providers to provide cell phone location data to be generated in the future, which the…