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PA Bill Number: HB1697

Title: Providing for liability for false claims, for adoption of congressional intent of the Federal False Claims Act, for damages, costs and civil ...

Description: Providing for liability for false claims, for adoption of congressional intent of the Federal False Claims Act, for damages, costs and civil ... ...

Last Action: Referred to JUDICIARY

Last Action Date: Jul 2, 2025

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SCOTUS Rules on Warrantless Cell Phone Searches :: 06/26/2014

WASHINGTON (The Blaze/AP) A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Wednesday police may not generally search the cell phones of people they arrest without first getting search warrants.
  The justices said cell phones are powerful devices unlike anything else police may find on someone they arrest.
  "The fact that an arrestee has diminished privacy interests does not mean that the Fourth Amendment falls out of the picture entirely," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the opinion of the court.
 

Perhaps Roberts might want to contact Pennsylvania courts on the Fourth Amendment

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/06/25/supreme-court-says-police-cannot-search-cellphones-without-a-warrant/