The United States asserts that this case does not involve official abuse or widespread mass surveillance and that there is no evidence of such activities relating to GPS use. opinion concurring in the judgment. issue. May 27, 1997. 0000003305 00000 n and, whatever the outcome, there is no possibility that the decision here They stated that there was a lack of proof of "irreparable injury." The United States used the locational data from the GPS in a federal trial that resulted in Jones’s conviction for conspiracy. from civil damages litigation arising out of events that occurred before In response, the United States argues that there was no seizure when the FBI agents installed the device because the agents did not interfere with Jones’s right of possession of the vehicle. The principal from petitioner, the current President of the United States, alleging, at 41–42. startxref District prosecutors, upset at the loss, re-filed a single count of conspiracy against Jones and his business partner, Lawrence Maynard. be described as "executive." United States Supreme Court. SeeSmith v. Maryland, 442 U.S. 735, 740 (1979). See id. CLINTON v. JONES certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the eighth circuit No. Having reached the conclusion that this was a search under the Fourth Amendment, the Court declined to examine whether any exception exists that would render the search "reasonable", because the Government had failed to advance that alternate theory in the lower courts. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. that no case had been found in which an official was granted immunity from U.S. 321, 337.


0000002770 00000 n v. Barnette, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. Public Utilities Comm'n of California, Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston, National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra, Communications Workers of America v. Beck, Board of Regents of the Univ. 0000010677 00000 n Edison Co. v. Public Serv. The United States argues that the mere attachment of the device did not convey any information that Jones wished to keep secret, and the potential to convey information does not make installation itself a search or seizure.

were applicable. . 0000013057 00000 n ��)�Xl'ߘ&�g�����a�d"�#w&���M=,��?%J=�����`c�[��UAL~2�����U͓��k�(k�CQ�b٩�`5p��#@1�����$AA�&e�P� ��4�L�v&� �e�@aB�m�zXC�2 No. The United States asserts that concerns regarding the potential for abuse or misuse of patterns gleaned from GPS data are also present in other police investigation techniques that the Supreme Court has held not to be searches under the Fourth Amendment, such as extended stakeouts or repeated trash collection. See id. See Brief for Respondent at 26–27. Jones argues that unconstrained use of GPS data would greatly impede citizens’ ability to associate with others for fear that some government official may aggregate their public movements to investigate their private relationships. of Wisconsin System v. Southworth, Regan v. Taxation with Representation of Washington, National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley, Walker v. Texas Div., Sons of Confederate Veterans, West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette. Supreme Court Decision: The United States v. Jones Jones In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruled that the police violated the Constitution when they placed a Global Positioning System tracking device on a suspect’s car and tracked its movements for 28 days. the President's term apply as well to a rule that would, in petitioner's During the course of the investigation, a Global Positioning System(GPS) device was installed on Jones's Jeep Grand Cherokee without a valid warrant. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Syllabus UNITED STATES v. JONES certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the district of columbia circuit No. After listing such exceptional cases, Jones points out that no special circumstances aside from law enforcement facilitation exist here. Relying on the Supreme Court’s Katz decision, the United States asserts that Jones could not have a reasonable expectation of privacy while driving on public roads. See Brief for Petitioner at 18. The University paid $21 in unemployment taxes for one employee for tax year 1975 and then filed for a refund in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina. See , 615 F.3d at 549. Because of its interpretation of Biblical principles regarding interracial dating, Bob Jones University completely excluded black applicants until 1971, and from 1971 until 1975, admitted black students only if they were married.
[49], Criminal defense attorneys and civil libertarians such as Virginia Sloan of the Constitution Project praised the ruling for protecting Fourth Amendment rights against government intrusion through modern technology. See id. Jones responds that he has a privacy interest in the aggregation of his movements over a prolonged period and that the aggregation of such information interferes with his use of the Jeep. U.S. 731, 749, 752, and n. 32--provides no support for an immunity No. After 1975, the University began to admit unmarried black applicants, but continued to deny "admission to applicants engaged in an interracial marriage or known to advocate interracial marriage or dating." Whether the warrantless use of a tracking device on respondent's vehicle to monitor its movements on public streets violated the Fourth Amendment. [2] During the course of the investigation, a Global Positioning System (GPS) device was installed on Jones's Jeep Grand Cherokee[3] without a valid warrant. movement on a public road) is not protected by the Fourth Amendment. The Court, speaking through Burger, read a "common law" public interest requirement into the statute governing tax-exempt charitable status, and cited Congress' refusal to intervene as proof that they approved of the IRS's construction of the statute. 0000010711 00000 n These types of information can each reveal more about a person than does any individual trip viewed in isolation. Jones argues that the warrant requirement checks the power of law enforcement, and that the Court has created special exceptions only for exceptional cases.

hamper the performance of his official duties. [5] The FBI arrested Jones in late 2005, at which time Jones was represented by criminal defense attorney A. Eduardo Balarezo of Washington, D.C. Balarezo filed multiple motions on Jones' behalf, including the motion to suppress the GPS data. at 16. During the investigation, the government obtained cell site location data with a 2703(d) order under the Stored Communications Act. Several privacy organizations contend that government officials can collect and consolidate the GPS devices’ location data into massive databases for later analysis of more than just historical travel logs. <<23F0D1B29DC0BC498BFF9C5EE3876C15>]>> rise to personal liability, see, e.g., Nixon v. Fitzgerald,


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