No. 19-1454

Naray Palaniappan v. United States

Lower Court: Second Circuit
Docketed: 2020-07-02
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: computer-search fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-particularity-requirement good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdiction-limitation particularity-requirement search-warrant warrant-application warrant-incorporation
Key Terms:
FourthAmendment CriminalProcedure Privacy
Latest Conference: 2020-09-29
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Where a warrant application requested authorization to search computers 'wherever located' but the warrant itself omitted that language, can government agents rely in good faith on the warrant to search a computer in New York?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED FOR REVIEW 1. Where a_ warrant application requested authorization to search computers “wherever located” but the warrant itself (1) stated that the application was to “search [] property located in the Eastern District of Virginia,” (2) omitted the “wherever located” language in describing the computers, and (8) failed to incorporate the application, can government agents rely in good faith on the warrant to search a computer in New York? 2. Where a search warrant fails to “particularly describ[e] the place to be searched,” U.S. Const. Amend. IV, but rather purports to authorize searches of “computers that are those of any user or administrator who logs into” a_ publicly accessible website, can government agents rely in good faith on the warrant to search thousands of computers around the world? i

Docket Entries

2020-10-05
Petition DENIED.
2020-07-15
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
2020-07-08
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2020-06-16
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 3, 2020)

Attorneys

Naray Palaniappan
Zachary Alexander Margulis-OhnumaLaw Office of Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma, Petitioner
Zachary Alexander Margulis-OhnumaLaw Office of Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma, Petitioner
United States
Jeffrey B. WallActing Solicitor General, Respondent
Jeffrey B. WallActing Solicitor General, Respondent