Criminal Procedure — Fourth Amendment — Sixth Circuit Holds that "Pinging" a Target's Cell Phone to Obtain GPS Data Is Not a Search Subject to the Warrant Requirement. — United States v. Skinner, 690 F.3d 772 (6th Cir. 2012), reh'g and reh'g en banc denied, No. 09-6497 (6th Cir. Sept. 26, 2012) (Harvard law review, 2013)
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