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U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments

Chatrie v. United States

U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments

Oyez

Government & Organizations, National

4.7661 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

A case in which the Court will decide whether execution of a geofence warrant in this case violated the Fourth Amendment.

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0:00.0

We will hear argument first this morning in case 25-1-12, Chattery versus United States.

0:06.2

Mr. Unikowski.

0:07.7

Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the Court, the government conducted a search of petitioner's location history,

0:14.0

and the warrant that purported to authorize that search violated the Fourth Amendment.

0:18.3

The government conducted a search.

0:20.2

The Court should hold that people

0:21.8

have a property interest in their data, in their accounts on the cloud. Location history has the

0:27.8

core attributes of property. Petitioner had a right to exclude, to control, and to destroy.

0:33.4

Additionally, Petitioner had a reasonable expectation of privacy in his location history, given

0:38.5

both its sensitive and revealing nature and the fact that it was stored in his password-protected

0:43.0

account. The warrant violated the Fourth Amendment. The warrant authorized the government

0:48.9

to direct Google to search every single person's account to find those people who were within

0:53.2

the G-offense. That is a general

0:55.2

warrant. Even if the search materialized only when the data was found and exposed to the police,

1:00.8

the warrant would still be unconstitutional because there was not probable cause to search the

1:05.3

virtual private papers of every single person within the geofence merely because of their

1:10.4

proximity to the crime.

1:12.2

Finally, at step two and step three, the search violated the Fourth Amendment

1:15.7

because the warrant gave the police unlimited discretion to decide who to search

1:19.9

while casting Google into the role of magistrate.

1:23.3

I welcome the Court's questions.

1:25.3

How exactly did the warrant violate petitioner's rights at the Fourth Amendment rights at

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