⚖ Oral Arguments, with Context

The Supreme Court considers a geofence warrant, which asks a technology company to identify devices recorded near a specified place and time. After a twenty nineteen credit-union robbery in Midlothian, Virginia, police asked Google for devices within one hundred fifty meters during a one-hour window. A three-step process ultimately identified Okello Chatrie. A government action is a Fourth Amendment search when it intrudes on a reasonable expectation of privacy. A warrant generally must rest on probable cause and particularly describe what may be searched. The Court later vacated and remanded. Five Justices held that accessing Location History was a search; Justice Gorsuch agreed on a property theory. The Court left this warrant's probable cause and particularity to the Fourth Circuit.

Chatrie v. United States (No. 25-112) — Supreme Court of the United States, argued April 27, 2026.