Legal Opinion
In re the United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 30, 2013No. 11-20884PublishedCited by 118 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH BROWN CLEMENT, Circuit Judge:
We are called on to decide whether court orders authorized by the Stored Communications Act to compel cell phone service providers to produce the historical cell site information of their subscribers are per se unconstitutional. We hold that they are not.
I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
In early October 2010, the United States filed three applications under § 2703(d) of the Stored Communications Act (“SCA”), 18 U.S.C. §§ 2701-2712, seeking evidence relevant to three separate criminal investigations. Each application requested a court order to compel the…
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