Partner Jeffrey Alberts, head of Pryor Cashman's White Collar Defense and Investigations practice, was quoted in the Law360 article entitled "Lawyers React to Supreme Court’s Cellphone Search Ruling."

On June 25, 2014, the nation’s highest court found that in most circumstances law enforcement officers cannot search information on a detained suspect’s cellphone without a warrant.

"The court reasoned that recent developments allow people to carry cellphones that are essentially minicomputers, which required changing the categorical rule concerning the search of physical objects in the pockets of an arrestee. This recognition could lead the Supreme Court to reconsider a wide variety of rules governing other types of searches," said Alberts.

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