United States v. Wurie

Docket No.	Op. Below	Argument	Opinion	Vote	Author	Term
13-212	1st Cir.	Apr 29, 2014 Tr.	Jun 25, 2014	9-0	Roberts	OT 2013

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

Judgment: Affirmed, 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.

SCOTUSblog Coverage

Symposium: In Riley v. California, a unanimous Supreme Court sets out Fourth Amendment for digital age (Marc Rotenberg and Alan Butler)
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)

Date	Proceedings and Orders (key to color coding)
Aug 15 2013	Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 16, 2013)
Sep 6 2013	Order extending time to file response to petition to and including October 16, 2013.
Oct 8 2013	Order further extending time to file response to petition to and including November 15, 2013.
Nov 15 2013	Brief of respondent Brima Wurie in opposition filed.
Nov 15 2013	Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed by respondent Brima Wurie.
Nov 20 2013	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of December 6, 2013.
Nov 20 2013	Reply of petitioner United States filed. (Distributed)
Dec 31 2013	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of January 17, 2014.
Jan 17 2014	Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed by respondent GRANTED.
Jan 17 2014	Petition GRANTED.
Feb 11 2014	SET FOR ARGUMENT ON Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Feb 21 2014	Record received from U.S.C.A. 1st Circuit, (1 envelope) part of this record is SEALED. All other filings of this record is available electronically through PACER.
Mar 3 2014	Joint appendix filed.
Mar 3 2014	Brief of petitioner United States filed.
Mar 5 2014	Consent to the filing of amicus curiae briefs, in support of either party or of neither party, received from the respondent.
Mar 6 2014	Consent to the filing of amicus curiae briefs, in support of either party or of neither party, received from counsel for the petitioner.
Mar 7 2014	Brief amici curiae of Criminal Law Professors in support of private parties filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
Mar 10 2014	CIRCULATED.
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 amici curiae of American Library Association, and The Internet Archive in support of Riley and Wurie filed. VIDED. (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. VIDED. (Distributed)
Mar 10 2014	Brief amicus curiae of Constitutional Accountability Center in support of Riley and Wurie filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
Apr 2 2014	Brief of respondent Brima Wurie filed. (Distributed)
Apr 9 2014	Brief amici curiae of National Association of Federal Defenders, et al., filed. (Distributed).
Apr 9 2014	Brief amici curiae of Downsize DC Foundation, et al., filed. (Distributed).
Apr 9 2014	Brief amicus curiae of Cato Institute filed. (Distributed)
Apr 9 2014	Brief amici curiae of Southwestern Law Student Anna Aran, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Apr 9 2014	Brief amicus curiae of The Rutherford Institute filed. (Distributed)
Apr 22 2014	Reply of petitioner United States filed. (Distributed)
Apr 29 2014	Argued. For petitioner: Michael R. Dreeben, Deputy Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. For respondent: Judith H. Mizner, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Boston, Mass.
Jun 25 2014	Adjudged to be AFFIRMED. 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. 13-132.
Jul 28 2014	JUDGMENT ISSUED.
Jul 28 2014	Record returned for U.S.C.A. for First Circuit.

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