U.S. v. Cotterman, No. 09-10139 (9th Cir.) (709 F.3d 952) (March 8, 2013) (Judge M. Margaret McKeown)
In this “watershed” en banc decision, the Ninth Circuit became the first Federal Circuit Court to announce a new special rule covering deep, passcode-cracking computer searches at the border. The majority held that because “a person’s digital life ought not to be hijacked simply by crossing the border,” a …
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