PA Bill Number: HB469
Title: Amending the act of August 5, 1977 (P.L.181, No.47), entitled "An act providing for the acceptance by the Governor of jurisdiction relinquished by ...
Description: Amending the act of August 5, 1977 (P.L.181, No.47), entitled "An act providing for the acceptance by the Governor of jurisdiction relinq ...
Last Action: Referred to State Government
Last Action Date: Feb 27, 2026
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
