Benchmarks: Cellphone-using driver guilty of negligent homicide 
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: February 12, 2013
Tags: cell phone, cellphone, distracted driving, negligent homicide
Lynn Dion will have plenty of time to learn how to live without a cellphone glued to her ear.
That’s because she’ll be spending the next 18 to 36 months in a New Hampshire prison for running down and killing a pedestrian in a crosswalk.
Search of arrestee’s cell phone constitutional
Published: December 26, 2012
Tags: cell phone, cocaine, Fourth Amendment, search and seizure
Police didn’t violate the Fourth Amendment when they briefly scanned the contents of a drug suspect’s cell phone following his arrest, Massachusetts’ highest court has ruled in affirming the denial of a motion to suppress.
Stored Communications Act doesn’t protect cell phone
Published: December 14, 2012
Tags: cell phone, privacy, Stored Communications Act
A plaintiff could not recover damages under the Stored Communications Act based on a claim that her employer accessed the contents of her cell phone without her consent, the 5th Circuit has ruled in affirming judgment.
Police couldn’t look at arrestee’s text messages
Published: October 10, 2012
Tags: cell phone, Fourth Amendment, search and seizure
Police were required to obtain a warrant before reading the text messages of a suspected drug dealer following his arrest, the Indiana Court of Appeals has ruled in reversing a conviction.
Police couldn’t check cell phone’s contents
Published: July 25, 2012
Tags: cell phone, Fourth Amendment, search and seizure
Police violated the Fourth Amendment when they failed to obtain a warrant before searching the contents of a drug suspect’s cell phone, the Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled.
Debt collector sued for autodialed cell phone calls
Published: May 15, 2012
Tags: cell phone, consumer protection, debt collection, Telephone Consumer Protection Act
A debt collector may have violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act when its automated dialing system contacted cell phone users with reassigned numbers, the 7th Circuit has ruled in affirming judgment.
Text messages shouldn’t have been admitted
Published: April 9, 2012
Tags: cell phone, evidence
Texts from a stolen cell phone should not have been admitted in a robbery trial without evidence corroborating that the defendant had authored the messages, the Nevada Supreme Court has ruled.
Police didn’t need warrant to check text messages
Published: March 29, 2012
Tags: cell phone, Fourth Amendment, search and seizure
Police didn’t need a warrant to check text messages on a cell phone seized from an arrested drug suspect, the Georgia Supreme Court has ruled in affirming judgment.
Police don’t need warrant for cell site location data
Published: March 13, 2012
Tags: cell phone, Fourth Amendment, search and seizure, Stored Communications Act
Federal investigators didn’t need a warrant in order to obtain the historical cell site location data for cell phones recovered from two robbery suspects, a U.S. District Court in Maryland has ruled in denying a motion to suppress.
Police can check cell phone for telephone number
Published: March 2, 2012
Tags: cell phone, Fourth Amendment, search and seizure
Police didn’t need a warrant to check a drug suspect’s cell phone for its phone number, the 7th Circuit has ruled in affirming a conviction.
