Hoping the U.S. Supreme Court would take up the matter, a federal appeals court in Massachusetts said it would not revisit a ruling that forces police to obtain a warrant to search data on the cellphone of a person who's under arrest.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on July 29 declined the Justice Department's request for full-court review of the May panel decision in USA v. Wurie . The three-judge panel ruling deepened the divide among federal appellate courts, setting the stage for a potential government petition to the high court.
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