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U.S. v. Cotterman, No. 09-10139 (9th Cir.) (709 F.3d 952) (March 8, 2013) (Judge M. Margaret McKeown)

Here the Ninth Circuit became the first Circuit Court of Appeals to hold that Border Patrol agents need reasonable suspicion to conduct deep searches of computers and similar digital devices seized at the border due to the invasive nature of the search.

In this “watershed” en banc decision, the Ninth ...

 

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