Riley v. California

Riley v. California

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Docket No.	Op. Below	Argument	Opinion	Vote	Author	Term
13-132	Cal.	Apr 29, 2014 Tr.Aud.	Jun 25, 2014	9-0	Roberts	OT 2013

Disclosure: Disclosure: Goldstein & Russell, P.C., whose attorneys contribute to this blog in various capacities, was among the counsel to the petitioner in this case at the certiorari stage through the Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, but it is not participating in the case at the merits stage.

Holding: The police generally may not, without a warrant, search digital information on a cellphone seized from an individual who has been arrested.

Judgment: Reversed and remanded, 9-0, in an opinion by Chief Justice Roberts on June 25, 2014. Justice Alito filed an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment.

Symposium: In Riley v. California, a unanimous Supreme Court sets out Fourth Amendment for digital age (Marc Rotenberg and Alan Butler)
Symposium: The Court starts to catch up with technology (Mason Clutter)
Symposium: Inaugurating the digital Fourth Amendment (Richard M. Re)
Symposium: Surprising unanimity, even more surprising clarity (Adam Gershowitz)
Symposium: A whole lot of Wurie: Information acquisition and the Fourth Amendment (Anthony Barkow Eric Del Pozo)
Get a warrant! Today's cellphone privacy decision in Plain English (Amy Howe)
Opinion analysis: Broad cloak of privacy for cellphones (Lyle Denniston)
A whole new world: Today’s oral arguments in Plain English (Amy Howe)
Argument analysis: Limiting a search? Sure, but how? (Lyle Denniston)
SCOTUS for law students (sponsored by Bloomberg Law): Searching cellphones (Stephen Wermiel)
Argument preview: Police and cellphone privacy (Lyle Denniston)
Court to rule on cellphone privacy (Lyle Denniston)
Petition of the day (Mary Pat Dwyer)

Date	Proceedings and Orders (key to color coding)
Jul 30 2013	Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 30, 2013)
Aug 12 2013	Waiver of right of respondent California to respond filed.
Aug 15 2013	Consent to the filing of amicus curae briefs, in support of either party or of neither party, received from counsel for the petitioner.
Aug 21 2013	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of September 30, 2013.
Aug 30 2013	Brief amici curiae of Center for Democracy & Technology and Electronic Frontier Foundation filed. (Distributed)
Aug 30 2013	Brief amicus curiae of Constitutional Accountability Center filed.
Aug 30 2013	Brief amicus curiae of National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers filed.
Sep 3 2013	Response Requested . (Due October 3, 2013)
Sep 27 2013	Brief of respondent California in opposition filed.
Oct 16 2013	Reply of petitioner David Leon Riley filed.
Nov 20 2013	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of December 6, 2013.
Dec 3 2013	Record Requested .
Dec 23 2013	Record received. California Court of Appeal for the Fourth Appellate District and San Diego Superior Court (1 box)
Dec 31 2013	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of January 17, 2014.
Jan 17 2014	Petition GRANTED limited to the following question: Whether evidence admitted at petitioner's trial was obtained in a search of petitioner's cell phone that violated petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights.
Feb 11 2014	SET FOR ARGUMENT ON Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Feb 18 2014	Consent to the filing of amicus curiae briefs, in support of either party or of neither party, received from counsel for the petitioner.
Feb 19 2014	Consent to the filing of amicus curiae briefs, in support of either party or of neither party, rece8ved from counsel for the respondent.
Mar 3 2014	Joint appendix filed. (Statement of costs filed.)
Mar 3 2014	Brief of petitioner David Leon Riley filed.
Mar 7 2014	Brief amici curiae of Criminal Law Professors in support of private parties filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
Mar 7 2014	Brief amici curiae of American Civil Liberties Union, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Mar 10 2014	CIRCULATED.
Mar 10 2014	Brief amici curiae of American Library Assciation, and The Internet Archive in support of Riley and Wurie filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
Mar 10 2014	Brief amicus curiae of Constitutional Accountability Center in support of Riley and Wurie filed. VIDED.
Mar 10 2014	Brief amici curiae of Center for Democracy & Technology, and Electronic Frontier Foundation in support of Riley and Wurie filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
Mar 10 2014	Brief amicus curiae of National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Mar 10 2014	Brief amicus curiae of DKT Liberty Project filed. (Distributed)
Mar 10 2014	Brief amici curiae of Electronic Privacy Information Center, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Mar 10 2014	Brief amici curiae of National Press Photographers Association, et al. filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
Mar 10 2014	Brief amici curiae of Professors Charles E. MacLean & Adam Lamparello filed. (Distributed)
Mar 10 2014	Brief amicus curiae of The Cato Institute filed. (Distributed)
Apr 2 2014	Brief of respondent California filed. (Distributed)
Apr 9 2014	Brief amicus curiae of United States filed. (Distributed)
Apr 9 2014	Brief amici curiae of Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Apr 9 2014	Brief amici curiae of Arizona, et al. filed. (Reprinted) (Distributed)
Apr 10 2014	Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument filed.
Apr 18 2014	Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument GRANTED.
Apr 22 2014	Reply of petitioner David Leon Riley filed. (Distributed)
Apr 29 2014	Argued. For petitioner: Jeffrey L. Fisher, Stanford, Cal. For respondent: Edward C. DuMont, Solicitor General, San Francisco, Cal.; and Michael R. Dreeben, Deputy Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (for United States, as amicus curiae.)
Jun 25 2014	Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED. Roberts, C. J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan, JJ., joined. Alito, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment. VIDED with No. 13-212.
Jul 28 2014	MANDATE ISSUED.
Jul 28 2014	Record returned for Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division One.

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