Chatrie v. United States
Decided June 29, 2026. Elena Kagan delivered the opinion of the Court.
Docket 25-112 · 609 U.S. ___ (2026)
Holding
Police officers conducted a Fourth Amendment search when they acquired Okello Chatrie’s location data from Google because an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in his cell-phone location information.
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How the Justices voted
Decided 6–3.
Majority · 5
- John G. Roberts, Jr.
- Sonia Sotomayor
- Elena Kagan · delivered the opinion of the Court
- Brett M. Kavanaugh
- Ketanji Brown Jackson · filed a concurring opinion
Concurring · 1
- Neil M. Gorsuch · filed an opinion concurring in the judgment
Dissenting · 3
- Clarence Thomas
- Samuel A. Alito, Jr. · filed a dissenting opinion
- Amy Coney Barrett · filed a dissenting opinion
“Concurring” means agreeing with the outcome; any split shown is the Court’s judgment, not each Justice’s reasoning. The lineup is the syllabus’s disposition of who wrote and joined each opinion. Source: the opinion’s syllabus (supremecourt.gov).
Official text
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